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Mental states are relationally individuated [10]; computational states are not [4], therefore computation cannot explain mentality [11], [5]. That's the externalist objection to computationalism, in a subtlety-ravaging nutshell. The transparent approach is to question the second premise. Peacocke has done just this by arguing that even conventional computational explanations are essentially relation and world-involving [7].
Ron Chrisley
1999-05-10