Thinking and Computation
Thinking and Computation
This chapter introduces the idea of thinking as a form of computation. In the same way that digital computers perform calculations on representations of numbers, human brains perform calculations on representations of what is known. The first section reviews very briefly the notion of thinking. The second section deals with the process of computation. The third section introduces the idea of thinking as a form of computation.
Keywords: thinking, computation, human brain
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