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@inproceedings{1375007,
author = {Mácha, Jakub},
address = {Bath, UK},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AISB Annual Convention 2017},
editor = {Bryson, Joanna; De Vos, Marina; Padget, Julian},
keywords = {information; mind; brain; computalism; Searle; encoding; neural gate},
howpublished = {elektronická verze "online"},
language = {eng},
location = {Bath, UK},
isbn = {978-1-908187-81-9},
pages = {21-27},
publisher = {Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour},
title = {Does the brain encode information?},
url = {http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/conference-edition-proceedings.pdf},
year = {2017}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1375007
AU - Mácha, Jakub
PY - 2017
TI - Does the brain encode information?
PB - Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
CY - Bath, UK
SN - 9781908187819
KW - information
KW - mind
KW - brain
KW - computalism
KW - Searle
KW - encoding
KW - neural gate
UR - http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/conference-edition-proceedings.pdf
L2 - http://aisb2017.cs.bath.ac.uk/conference-edition-proceedings.pdf
N2 - Our common sense intuition says that when remembering something we store a piece of information in our memory, that is, in our brain. We can go further by claiming that the brain computes a program by processing information. The computational theory of the mind treats minds as information processing systems. These claims are the main tenets of contemporary cognitive science and neuroscience. Drawing on Searle’s famous Wall argument, I argue, counter to these claims, that the brain cannot carry information by any reasonable definition of information (Shannon, semantic, algorithmic, quantum). Possessing information cannot be an intrinsic feature of any material object, including the brain. If the brain cannot store any information, it cannot compute any function or run any program, for non-trivial functions and programs presuppose the input information. Hence, the analogy between hardware/software and brain/mind is flawed in this respect.
ER -
MÁCHA, Jakub. Does the brain encode information?. Online. In Bryson, Joanna; De Vos, Marina; Padget, Julian. \textit{Proceedings of AISB Annual Convention 2017}. Bath, UK: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 2017, p.~21-27. ISBN~978-1-908187-81-9.
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