Is the brain a digital computer?

Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 64 (3):21-37 (1990)
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There are different ways to present a Presidential Address to the APA; the one I have chosen is simply to report on work that I am doing right now, on work in progress. I am going to present some of my further explorations into the computational model of the mind.\**

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