What Is Thought?
Baum, Eric B.
In "What Is Thought?" Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work "What Is Life?" argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to doubt there can be such an explanation. Baum argues that the co...