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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social

Presenting some stuff from my dissertation at this cool workshop in a couple weeks on dynamical models of speech: samkirkham.github.io/dymos/ Doing a lot of reading/prep work as I am the "symbolicist" going to talk to a bunch of "dynamacists". Should be fun! (seriously)

jul 14, 2025, 9:00 pm • 5 1

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social

One thing I have discovered is both Fodor in his intro to Modularity of Mind and van Gelder and Port in their intro to Mind as Motion use the phrase, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." Filing this nonsense away to use if I ever write a book on my thoughts on cognition.

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Scott Nelson @esseeohteetee.bsky.social

vG and Port take a lot of liberties when talking about computationalism. The most egrigious is in footnote 9 where they write, "despite their simplicity, [Turing machines] can (in principle) perform computations just as complex as any computational system." That parenthetical is just wrong!

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