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The early-modern philosophers, particularly Descartes, regarded the mind as the reasoning engine: they overlooked motivation and emotion. The contemporary version of this ultra-rationalist view is computationalism, the thesis that all mental processes are computations.
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Bunge, M. (2010). Brain and Computer: The Hardware/Software Dualism. In: Matter and Mind. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 287. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9225-0_12
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