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To Catch A Predator: Part 1

Local and federal law enforcement agencies have been working together recently on sting operations in Kentucky in an attempt to catch online sexual predators playing their games. Dateline (USA, NBC) has been able to participate in some of these operations, and have interviewed some of the men being caught out. With seven cameras outside the house and five more inside these guys don’t have a chance of denying what they are trying to do.

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posted by Ewan Williams
January 14, 2010

The Connectionist Computational Theory of Mind

While searching for adequate theories of mind one is likely to come across the connectionist version of the computational theory of mind, and it appears that, this particular theory, provides us with working models effortlessly for such cognitive capacities as rapid recognition, associative memory and categorical generalization.

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posted by Ewan Williams
September 18, 2009

The Classical Computational Theory of Mind

There are a number of different versions of the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM) but in its classical form it states that thinking is a computational process involving mental representations. These mental representations or symbols are all contained within their own unique language, the Language of Thought (LOT). A common catch phrase often seen accompanying the classical CTM is that ‘the mind is to the brain what the program is to the hardware’ but as easy an analogy as this is for those learning about the classical CTM it also opens the theory up to a whole world of criticisms and flaws.

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