Traps of Computationisme

• Authors: Józef Dębowski

Title variants

PL

Pułapki komputacjonizmu

EN

Traps of Computationisme

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper concerns basic restrictions (and also simplifications and misinterpretations) which happens when one tries to explain mind processes (especially cognitive ones) by an analogy to formal, algorithmical and anticipated computation processes. The paper puts together the most important reasons why these attempts come to grief. The essence of computative reduction is shown among other things on the basic theorems of modern metamathematics. Especially it gives prominence epistemological consequences Gödel's theorems and recent discovers in metamathematics made by Gregory J. Chaitin. But simplifications of computationisme (and partly of whole cognitivisme) don't mean that the other way is only postmodernism.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-50

Dates

published

2004-03-01

Contributors

author

Józef Dębowski