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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Grice's Mind: A Specific Kind of Description of the World, Namely that of the Discrete State Machine

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Hodges:

"From a philosophical point of view, [Turing's Oct. 1950 Mind essay, "Computing machinery and intelligence"] could be said to fit in with Gilbert Ryle's "The Concept of Mind", which had appeared in 1949, and which put forward the idea of mind not as something added to the brain, but as a kind of description of the world."
 
"But Alan's paper proposed a specific kind of description, namely that of the discrete state machine."
 
Would that fit Grice's mind?

Discrete state machine, like continuous, has 5 states. Unlike continuous it is not recomputing UPPER boundary of the processing slide, rather simply re-triggering processing for given timeperiod.
Discrete state machine diagram: Discrete state machine diagram

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