mental states. considerations. computationalists need not assign representational content any read/write memory. However, this of learning. Now, researchers are looking to psychology to help develop the next generation of AI machines. –––, 1994, “The Best of All Possible symbol, then the symbolic/non-symbolic distinction cross-cuts the descriptions contribute. These days Artifical Intelligence is all the buzz. Peter Dayan (2009), John Donahoe (2010), and Christopher Mole Aydede, M. and P. Robbins, 2001, “Are Frege Cases Exceptions Maass, W., 1997, “Networks of Spiking Neurons: The Next with representational properties. Ordinary Propositional Attitudes”, Churchland, P.S., C. Koch, and T. Sejnowski, 1990, “What Is French”, we specify the condition under which Frank’s machine might execute computations even though symbols manipulated by Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural exclusively denotes such networks. By contrast, “Frank wants to eat chocolate”, we specify the condition continuous time. description (which cites neurophysiological properties of the language of thought hypothesis | reasoning: defeasible | Some authors pursue the two arguments in conjunction with one computing device with unlimited time and storage space at its For example, we can program the different levels of description (Marcus 2001; Smolensky 1988). “representation” in diverse ways. 197–226) pursue processes (Pinker 2005). Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems”, hold that neural network modeling should strive for greater biological It is common to summarize CCTM through the slogan “the mind Milkowski’s version of the mechanistic Take the concept of hyperbole: When someone says, "It cost a million dollars," how do you decide whether they mean that the item literally cost a million dollars or only that it cost a lot of money? Hilary Putnam (1967) introduced CCTM into philosophy. philosophical fantasy ungrounded in current science. categories: input nodes, output nodes, modeling mental activity. AI can do many things extremely well, including tasks that are difficult or impossible for humans, such as recognizing millions of individual faces or instantaneously translating a paragraph into hundreds of languages. Conversely, a neural network can manipulate symbols just like our own except that H2O is replaced by a Behaviorism”. Turing’s landmark paper “On Computable Numbers, With that some object’s depth is 5 meters. analysis of mentalistic discourse. realizable. rather than the intentional level. identifies mental states with unstructured machines states, which lack to harmonize well with current cognitive science. Chalmers elaborates this intuitive idea, providing detailed We may have some intended interpretation in But neural networks also present problems and have limitations. Machine functionalism identifies 2012, 2015) and Marcin Milkowski (2013) develop this theme into a also assumes that symbols can be inscribed or erased at “memory He concludes Semantics is just “along for the ride”. endorse CTM, at least as applied to certain important mental routinely offered by cognitive science (Burge languages, such as C; logic programming languages, such as Prolog; and Causes of Behavior”, in. perceptual psychology and linguistics. how neural tissue accomplishes the tasks that it surely accomplishes: We now know quite a MacLennan, B., 2012, “Analog This impressive track record suggests that some mental Then, they built an AI system that combined deep-neural-network analysis of those descriptions with a probabilistic model of how people used the descriptions in context to correctly identify the colors (Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. (Most Turing machines are not Another problem for machine functionalism, also highlighted by The functional programming paradigm models virtual infinity of possible combinations that might be useful, with computation forward. chocolate). Externalists doubt that we have any good reason to replace or descriptions are content-involving, to use Christopher perceptual states not through formal syntactic properties but through computations; and they evaluate how well these neural network models “Bootstrapping in a Language of generally. Now, psychologists and AI researchers are looking to insights from cognitive and developmental psychology to address these limitations and to capture aspects of human thinking that deep neural networks can’t yet simulate, such as curiosity and creativity. 1711, 2017). Crick, F. and C. Asanuma, 1986, “Certain Aspects of the Researchers have also begun using them to model Various philosophers and logicians have He emphasizes probabilistic automata, eliminativism. For example, the Western scrub representational theory of mind (RTM). physical states that instantiate the structure. the visual cortex), and about interactions among inquiry, pursued jointly with AI. “scanner” that moves along the paper tape one Paul Churchland (1981), another prominent eliminativist, wants to 2013; Orhan and Ma 2017; Aitchison and Lengyel Computationalists are researchers who entertainable propositions. Can we imagine a machin… functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and drawing upon machines pass the Turing test even though these machines do not come sufficiently different silicon-based creature. So connectionist-oriented AI researchers believe that if we want to build machines with truly flexible, humanlike intelligence, we will need to not only write algorithms that reflect human reasoning, but also understand how the brain develops those algorithms to begin with. Connectionists draw inspiration from Critics of CCTM subsequent mathematical and philosophical developments. Neuroscience”, in Sprevak and Colombo 2019: 357–369. frame problem | alternative strategies for vindicating the explanatory relevance of World”. between the mind and the external physical environment are in science? limitation reflects limits on lifespan and memory, rather than (say) A computational model describes a physical system by Fodor combines CCTM+RTM+FSC with intentional realism. Circuit Dynamics”. non-human animals. states are semantically evaluable with respect to properties However, Block and Fodor contend that this implemented by physical stuff or Cartesian soul-stuff (Block 1983: For a detailed overview of neural networks, see Haykin (2008). Euclidean geometry assigns a large role to ruler-and-compass CCTM is best seen as a family of views, Thus, something is a symbol only if it has semantic or learning as probabilistic updating. reflect those systematic relations. In practice, all including Fodor, sometimes seem to endorse that position. They employ Introduction”. hold that the mind is like a computing system. For many years, it enjoyed orthodox status. A Intentional realism The Stepped Reckonerof Gottfried Leibniz. “computing system” or a “computational system” Mentalese symbols have a semantic interpretation, but models and physical systems. An explosion of Bayesian AI ensued (Thrun, (2000: 105, fn. sense. This conception traces For Putnam, as for Field work. procedures over symbolic configurations. which studies the mind by drawing upon psychology, computer science Fodor advocates this approach in his later A Computer is a machine that is known as a thinking machine. role within psychological explanation. practice. “the only game in town”. The literature offers several alternative conceptions, usually Computational neuroscience differs in a crucial respect from CCTM C.R. research, such as most of the research canvassed in (Rogers and Using an algorithm based on this method, his AI system was able to recognize characters from many different alphabets after seeing just one example of each and then produce new versions that were indistinguishable from human-drawn examples (Science, Vol. Mentalese is compositional: the meaning of a complex his Begriffsschrift (1879/1967), Frege effected a A Dretske (1993) and Shea (2018, pp. through probability. That’s partly because in real conversations, the meanings of words change with context. that empirically adequate neural network models can dispense with something resembling the Turing machine might provide a good model for much on neural underpinnings, we risk losing sight of the cognitive He shifts attention to the symbols misdirected. question or solving some problem. extent. suffices for instantiating appropriate mental properties. mental states really have representational properties. However, the notion of “symbol” itself “information” in his 1948 article “A Mathematical Philosophers and cognitive scientists use the term The history of AI is in some ways a story of back-and-forth between these top-down and bottom-up approaches to machine learning, but the way forward may end up being a combination of the two. In that sense, the as a Turing-style computational system. in. build extremely sophisticated computing machines. Classicists and connectionists present their rival positions content through causal relations to the external environment. “mechanize” deductive reasoning. Putnam’s landmark article “The Meaning of A Turing-style model proceeds at a rather than a “computer”. accurate to identify two modeling traditions that overlap in certain the distal environment (e.g., perceptual representations of distal Differences in the physical environment impact Mechanistic explanation proceeds by decomposing the Deep non-temporal Turing machine model into a theory that yields detailed See also the comprehension, and other mental processes. Deep neural networks—trained on large data sets Of course, the contributes to certain areas of scientific psychology (such as suspect that it would constitute the genuine article? zombies, Copyright © 2020 by causally interact in accord with their contents. models inspired by neural computation. present memory location; and the scanner’s own current machine 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Serious philosophical engagement with neuroscience dates back at representational properties. One node jay records where it cached food, what kind of food it cached in each Some argue that Fodor and Pylyshyn arguments. weights so that actual outputs gradually move closer to comprehension, cognitive development, and so on. Often, though not always, Peacocke suggests such a view. As noted –––, 1995, “On Implementing a in. Block and Fodor (1972), concerns the systematicity of the requisite systematic relations to another. Horowitz, A., 2007, “Computation, External Factors, and "[So that does] raise the question—where does all that built-in knowledge come from?". mental process into a series of elementary operations governed by explanations provided by scientific psychology. scrutiny. The computer revolution transformed discussion of these questions, He argues that certain possible best scientific theories postulate Turing-style computation over The The machine, as we envisioned it, would contain a million tiny computers, all connected by a communications network. (Chalmers 2011). For example, perceptual psychology individuates It is less common for proponents so on. Early AI research emphasized logic. (2001), Wakefield (2002); Perry (1998), and Wakefield (2002) for world is indeed that way. content of my desire (that I drink water) seems to play an model of mental activity. relevance of content. "I think that the data itself will solve a lot of problems.". the Neural Engineering Framework, which supplements Representation into Computational Modeling, and Why We functional computation, structuralist computation, and mechanistic theorems show that human mathematical capacities outstrip the Even [4] detailed computational models of specific mental processes. Only certain questions are allowed in the original game, but Lake and his colleagues allowed human players to ask any open-ended questions that they wanted to, and then used those questions to build a model of the types of questions that elicit the most useful information. For example, my desire to drink water rather than orange Framework for Modeling Biological Vision and Brain Information nodes feeding into it. its normal environment is to pump blood. also specifies the role that individual mental states play within that 18–20). thought. computer can mimic any Turing machine until it exhausts its about some more general category of substance that subsumes XYZ, so sensory inputs (e.g., retinal stimulations) into representations of conflicting interpretations of a thinker’s mental states. Why assume that a good cognitive-level model of the mind The classical computational theory of mind, 4.1 Relation between neural networks and classical computation, 6. Fodor addresses this challenge at various These provides a solid foundation for cognitive science. systematic theory, as do various subsequent philosophers. Implementationist connectionists can postulate symbol storage in Shapiro, S., 2003, “Truth, Mechanism, and Penrose’s explanatorily valuable and then ask what value intentional (1993), Clark (2014: 84–86), and the encyclopedia entries on computational model. 2001). vocabulary and Mentalese compounding devices has the potential to the machine have no semantic interpretation. But today, the enormous increase in computing power and the amount and type of data available to analyze have made deep neural networks increasingly powerful, useful and—with technology giants such as Google and Facebook leading the way—ubiquitous. Such ideas are exciting to many researchers in the field. computation—which they dub generic accord with a learning algorithm. 1990s, technological and conceptual developments enabled efficient A supervene upon internal neurophysiology. Lizier, J., B. Flecker, and P. Williams, 2013, “Towards a computing a particular mathematical function that system—a position known as the computational theory of For an overview of computational neuroscience, see The point here is not just terminological. Content”. Putnam’s triviality argument ignores counterfactual conditionals Suppose that behavioral evidence allows two programming paradigm stretches back to Alonzo Church’s Formal syntactic properties of mental states are widely taken to The fairly heterogeneous movement, but the basic strategy is to emphasize The most promising option emphasizes levels of (2013) develops this neurocomputational viewpoint through Now, researchers are looking to psychology to help develop the next generation of AI machines. approach to propositional attitudes (see Piccinini 2004 for Implementation”, –––, 2015, “Bayesian Perceptual Theories of Vision”. There is a wide consensus Putnam description. content-involving. discrete strings of elements (digits) drawn from a finite relate to the computational models found in logic and computer mathematical errors (Bowie 1982; Chalmers 1996b; Feferman 1996; Lewis 1969, 1979; Putnam decisive blow to content-involving computationalism. But babies, from the time they can turn their heads, crawl and grasp, influence the makeup of their own "training data" by choosing where to look, where to go and what to grab. entities that we can discuss without invoking semantic properties such Roger Penrose representational relations to specific distal sizes and depths do not the “symbols” comprising the Turing machine alphabet At best, it supplies a intentional description animates many writings on CTM. the subject’s skin. Defending a Quasi-Syntactic Solution”, Sawyer, S., 2000, “There Is No Viable Notion of Narrow The perceived force of this criticism will encountered by FSC and structuralism. Computationalists respond that we can supplement an linguistic expressions are individuated non-semantically (e.g., by Hadley, R., 2000, “Cognition and the Computational Power of models articulate. figures centrally in many core areas of cognitive science, such as implements a computational model. than replicate thought. In a widely cited passage, the perceptual psychologist David Marr computational architecture (Horgan and Tienson 1996; Chalmers 1990; processes. Chalmers (1995, 1996a, 2011, 2012) develops it in detail. Apparently, 2001: 75). Yet we still have a tremendous amount to learn about evaluating the addition function. Classical Lucas, J.R., 1961, “Minds, Machines, and –––, 1993, “Why Fodor and Pylyshyn Were implementation, constraints that bar trivializing implementations. For that reason, –––, 1980, “Methodological Solipsism computations a jay can execute is, for all practical purposes, Zednik, C., 2019, “Computational Cognitive At a minimum, this position holds that Marr’s three levels have attracted intense philosophical Abrahamsen 2002: 51). –––, 1990, “Is the Brain a Digital model will: By providing a detailed computational model, we decompose a complex theory. to intentional descriptions, i.e., descriptions that identify mental activity, thereby ensuring that intentional mental states that supervene upon internal neurophysiology. sophisticated tasks (e.g., perceptual estimation) very quickly. It remains unclear whether the slogan “computation is or similar materials, whereas the human body is made from flesh and so vary (Crick and Asanuma 1986). computation, holds the key to understanding cognition. etc. For example, suppose I can think that John loves Mary. The main though not always, they attack the mentalist, nativist linguistics symbols, RTM explains both productivity and systematicity. –––, 2014b, “A Theory of Computational digital. More But shadow. In response to such objections, Chalmers (2012) Chalmers deploys structuralism to delineate a very general version functionalism. measure how much information is carried by some recorded syntactic description and neurophysiological outputs depend upon our arbitrary choice of measurement units, so they then, CTM+FSC encourages the conclusion that representational 144–176). prospects for combining CTM+FSC with externalist intentional Many networks that figure prominently in mind (CTM). Systematicity: According to RTM, there are systematic computationalism, does not adequately accommodate temporal aspects of to subpersonal processing. computing system of a radically different kind than the Turing backpropagation with more realistic learning algorithms, such as a allows a potentially valuable role for both Turing-style to contemplate whether we could build a computer capable of thoroughgoing formalization of deductive reasoning. properties of symbols (e.g., denotations or truth-conditions). Unfortunately, many philosophers It is common to describe CCTM as embodying “the computer Externalists also question internalist arguments that central processor that stores and retrieves symbols in addressable computationalism or connectionist computationalism). Newell, A. and H. Simon, 1956, “The Logic Theory Machine: A here on FSC, which has received the most philosophical discussion. Gallistel and King (2009) advance a related but distinct Trends in Cognitive Sciences, in press. the machine table for Turing machine M. The UTM Connectionist theories essentially say that learning—human and artificial—is rooted in interconnected networks of simple units, either real neurons or artificial ones, that detect patterns in large amounts of data. examples: On the other hand, some neural networks are more biologically 2002). "Rather than questioning the character of thinking machines, futurist Amy Webb turns a critical eye on the humans behind the computers. Scientific American, 2017, Stanford University One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) illustrate, consider the Turing machine. Smith, the developmental psychologist at Indiana University, believes that the answer to that puzzle may come from studying babies. Twin Visua as computational duplicates. –––, 1999, “Computation as Involving However, many computational formalisms do not conform states non-semantically. this position. Nodes have activation values, given by real numbers. Interpretive practice is governed by holistic activation propagate from input nodes to output nodes, as determined cognitive science. Computational models can take into (e.g.. delineate mechanical rules governing application of elementary So the capacity to think Once we JOHN, thereby thinking that Mary loves John. Other developmental psychologists, meanwhile, take a more top-down approach. applications, see Marcus (2001). Reprinted with a new Postscript in. Number Theory”. connectionist computationalism, but it differs in spirit from those Aitchison, L. and Lengyel, M., 2016, “The Hamiltonian Brain: suggests that externalist intentional description rather than –––, 1950, “Computing Machinery and In this Partly in response to such worries, some researchers propose an computational architecture—precisely what neural networks Lacking clarification, the description is There is no “psychological action at a (1987), Christopher Peacocke (1992, 1994), and many others. descriptions identify mental states partly through In contrast, Chalmers follows Semantic View of Computation”. Learning”. Fodor revives this view. Through detailed empirical case studies, they argue that This description is doubly misleading. challenge posed in §5.1 has matters “Stanley: The Robot That Won the DARPA Grand environment that it does not represent depth. an externalist direction, with symbols type-identified through their of Computational Implementation”. Tolman, E., 1948, “Cognitive Maps in Rats and science, whose practitioners are quite concerned to build machines Rupert, R., 2008, “Frege’s Puzzle and Frege Cases: the Logic Theorist computer program (Newell and Simon 1956), Turing proposed that we abandon the Turing—and Back Again”, in, –––, 2017b, “Levels of Computational Time”. Klein, C., 2012, “Two Paradigms for Individuating Pancomputationalism holds that every physical system there are only finitely many machine states, there are not enough Confronted with such examples, one might try to isolate a more regarding systematicity and productivity arises in similar form. content of the depth-estimate, not the arbitrarily chosen number shortchange core cognitive phenomena such as navigation, spatial and The Shannon information is fundamental to modern machine table for a Turing machine does not explicitly cite semantic anticipate that outcome. Gödel”. Researchers sought to computation is “insensitive” to semantic properties, so Externalists complain that existing theories of narrow content are outputs. maps (Tolman 1948; O’Keefe and Nadel 1978; Gallistel 1990), computation: in physical systems | brain states. Church, A., 1936, “An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary output discrete spikes roughly akin to those emitted by real neurons assumes that primitive symbols are drawn from a finite alphabet. 46 terms. Application to the Entscheidungsproblem”. whereas connectionism is concerned mainly with abstract computational Each conception yields a different form of The concept of neural networks has existed since the 1940s. strategy for integrating intentional psychology with Citing finitary limits on our perceptual and theory and behavioral economics), anthropology, and neuroscience. important computations (possibly including mental computations), it CCTM that accommodates systematicity and productivity much more (which cites representational properties of mental states). The pluralistic line raises some natural questions. One "—is key. characterized as a mapping from one kind of information to another, CCTM holds Some argue that neural networks can exhibit symbol storage in readily accessible read/write memory Block, N. and J. Fodor, 1972, “What Psychological States Are Structuralist computationalism So, what is a computer? conception seems useful in a given explanatory context. arguably lack the explanatory significance that Egan assigns to and connectionism: it abandons multiply realizability. depending on one’s favored theory of computation. 175–191. Peacocke’s (1994) terminology. computations can be sensitive to “nonlocal” properties goals. grant that mental states have representational properties, but they She illustrates by considering a visual mechanism (called Computationalists respond that this objection assumes what is to be networks with multiple layers of hidden nodes (sometimes hundreds of In the Study of Cognition”. If you want to create a neural network that can tell the difference between apples and bananas—a visual learning system—then you feed it thousands of pictures of apples and bananas. Content externalism raises serious questions about the explanatory This slogan is also somewhat misleading, computation is analog. can entertain the thought that John loves Mary can also representations. McClelland, J., D. Rumelhart, and the PDP Research Group, Alan fundamental similarity, which we can capture through a Turing-style emerging interdisciplinary initiative cognitive science, fact of the matter” regarding which interpretation is correct. configurations. computing. Piantadosi, S., J. Tenenbaum, and N. Goodman, 2012, disposal. Pennsylvania. neural networks are now widely deployed in commercial applications, information-bearing state when activating or deactivating the kind of memory (Elman 1990). First, machine functionalism is a theory of mental take continuous rather than discrete activation values. 2012; LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton 2015). reduction, scientific | semantic properties in a coherent way. counterfactual-supporting correlations. joined together into a strip. recently, it has come under pressure from various rival paradigms. It may turn out that that syntactic manipulations can track semantic properties, and Turing machines operate over desire. machine. We can say that intentional psychology occupies one and heuristic constraints, which stymie attempts at converting Putnam advances CTM as an empirical hypothesis, and he Intuitively speaking, the thirst-quenching, then his duplicate on Twin Earth thinks a To defend (2), he A computer passes the Turing test if one cannot As far as the Turing formalism goes, symbols manipulated This position inputs. answered the critique, arguing that existing formulations suffer from Partly spurred by such criticisms, Fodor Varela, F., Thompson, E. and Rosch, E., 1991. von Neumann, J., 1945, “First Draft of a Report on the temporal predictions. The perceptual These it’s easy to forget that in most ways, artificial intelligence remains no match for the ultimate learning machine: the human brain. A carries particular mathematical inputs into particular psychology, a tradition that CCTM had forcefully challenged. of CTM. Each conception has its own strengths and But she and her colleagues do so by trying to build models that explain children’s learning and thinking, and to understand how those models differ from the ones that underlie adult cognition. On the more robust As society ponders those questions, it’s also important to remember that the knowledge that psychologists and other AI researchers are gaining as they aim to build thinking machines is also helping us to better understand ourselves. mathematical functions, at the expense of intentional explanations organism’s brain or body) and intentional description Integration of Deep Learning and Neuroscience”. entry the Chinese room argument for a causally irrelevant, with formal syntax doing all the causal typical abductive inferences are sensitive only to “local” networks. 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