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Abstract:
(Invited Talk)
There has been much talk about the computationalism being
dead. But as Mark Twain said of rumors of his own death: these
rumors are highly exaggerated. Unlike Twains case, of course,
there is room for a good deal of doubt and uncertainty as to what
it is exactly that is being claimed to have died. Whose old
conception are we talking about? Turings? Fodors? I will leave
the issues of the computational model of mind to the philosophers
and cognitive scientists. I will address rather some -or at any
rate, one of the real shifts of focus in theoretical computer
science: away from single-processor (single-thereaded) sequential
models of computation and toward accounts of interaction among
computational processes. I will even address the question as to
whether this is a shift in paradigms or simply (?) a quite normal
evolution of interests within a paradigm.
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