computationalistn.adj.

1956 Musical Times Oct. 517/1 It would seem that it is this second view which holds sway over the post-Webernites, electronicists and computationalists.

1980 Proc. Biennial Meeting Philos. Sci. Assoc. 2 269 The school of computationalists—Simon, Pylyshyn, Fodor, Anderson, to name some exemplars in psychology—affirms that the consensual describes the personal.

1990 L. Antony in G. Boolos Meaning & Method 107 Computationalists of this stripe subscribe to what Fodor has called the ‘representational theory of mind’.

2002 R. Carter Consciousness vi. 179 All but the most gung-ho computationalists have conceded that simply programming more and more concepts into a machine will not give it the range or subtlety of responses which allow humans..to behave sensibly in any situation.

1979 R. C. Richardson in Philos. Sci. 46 533 It is shown that any functionalism imposing an additional constraint of de facto autonomy must also be committed to a pure functionalist—that is, a computationalist—model for psychology.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Mar. 44/2 Mental states are to be analyzed in a way which is, at the same time, materialist, functionalist, dependent on information processing, and computationalist.