Computational Psychology Psychologists must advert to inner states and episodes in explaining behaviour, so long as the states and episodes are construed throughout as physical. Human beings and other psychological organisms are best viewed as information-processing systems. Organisms employ internal representations and perform computational operations on those representations. Cognition is viewed as a matter of the rule-governed manipulation of representations much as it occurs in digital computers. Introduction and Chapter 6 only, pp.
Intentional content is nothing but the meaning of internal representations.
Mind and Cognition. A Reader . Mind and Cognition. A Reader . To say that we think in a language of thought is to say that our mental representations, the neural states that realize our beliefs, can be viewed, like sentences of a natural language, as organized structures, the representational features of the whole derived from the representational features of its constituent parts and structure.