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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by khafra on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @11:25AM (#1983456)
...but given the widely-accepted computational theory of mind, humans are artificial intelligences too.
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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by dhs on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @01:34PM (#1984006)
Excuse me, but I'd really like to see your evidence of how the computational theory of mind is "widely accepted".
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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by khafra on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @02:12PM (#1984178)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind

> This view is common in modern cognitive psychology and is presumed by theorists of evolutionary psychology.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start by iskander on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:47PM (#1992882)
> common in modern cognitive psychology

Only among a small besieged minority-- the majority have moved on to neurocognitive research.

>and is presumed by theorists of evolutionary psychology

That's just straight-up wrong. Perhaps there's some theorist who buys into it, but it's certainly not common.

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