Abstract
The cognitive revolution of the mid-20th century allowed scientists to return consciousness into respectable scientific research, thereby bypassing the eliminativist approaches of behaviorism and physicalism. Machine functionalism adopted the computer metaphor and became the philosophical foundation for this new scientific trend. In the second half of the 20th century, many significant data were obtained by the efforts of cognitive scientists on how mental processes are arranged, but the methodological boundaries of computational theories and the ontological status of mental states remained a serious problem. This complex issue is closely analyzed by P.N. Baryshnikov in his book “Computational models of the mind: From code to meaning”. Moving along the historical line of development of cognitive science and related philosophical conceptions, the author demonstrates that computational theories are not able to explain the semantic aspect of mental states, although they have heuristic potential for creating artificial intelligent systems that implement some of the cognitive functions of the human mind.
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