Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind | Thing in itself w/ Ashar Khan

Gualtiero Piccinini is professor of philosophy at the Center for Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His work focuses on computation, cognitive science, and the study of the mind. He is widely known for his work on a mechanistic account of physical computation.
0:00 intro and background
5:43 what kind of computation is the mind
13:16 what is a representation
15:01 the mechanistic framework
18:50 can psychology function on its own?
24:11 language and intelligence
28:19 consciousness
32:43 emergence
36:44 is consciousness a spandrel?
42:00 reductionism and non-reductive physicalism
47:16 multiple realizability
51:16 what is computation and the Church-Turing thesis
56:26 what is lost in uploading your brain
1:02:47 AI
1:09:27 4EA cognition, robotics, cybernetics
1:18:34 what should the role of phenomenology be
1:21:10 pancomputationalism
1:29:45 Aristotelian realism, ethics, and favourite philosophers
1:35:07 advice for young people
Gualtiero Piccinini Books
Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account
Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition
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