creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
type: journalp
datestamp: 2003-06-19
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title: Darwin, Skinner, Turing and the Mind 
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subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
abstract: Darwin/Skinner/Turing explanation is all a blind, behavioral explanation. It explains the underlying causal mechanisms of what we can do. But it cannot and cannot explain what (or that) we feel.
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle
volume: LXVII
number: 4
pagerange: 521-528
refereed: TRUE
referencetext:  Cangelosi, A. & Harnad, S. (2001) The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories. Evolution of Communication 4(1)
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (2002) Darwin, Skinner, Turing and the Mind.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3016/1/darwin.htm

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