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The Mind as a Control System*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Aaron Sloman
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This is not a scholarly research paper, but a ‘position paper’ outlining an approach to the study of mind which has been gradually evolving (at least in my mind) since about 1969 when I first become acquainted with work in Artificial Intelligence through Max Clowes. I shall try to show why it is more fruitful to construe the mind as a control system than as a computational system (although computation can play a role in control mechanisms).

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 34 , March 1993 , pp. 69 - 110
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1993

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