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Humans, animals and computers: Minding machines?
2011
Revista de Psicología
are there minding machines? In this paper, I consult historical, philosophical, and empirical materials in trying to answer this intriguing question. My historical and philosophical discussions focus on five famous Frenchmen (Michele de Montaigne, René Descartes, Salomon de Caus, Julien offray de la Mettrie, and Jacques Vaucanson) and one famous american (William James). My review of empirical research focuses on four topics in contemporary comparative cognition: associative/causal learning,
doi:10.5354/0719-0581.2009.17119
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