All control systems perform computation according to ART, including purely mechanical ones like the centrifugal governor, which therefore cannot serve as a counter-example in cognitive computationalism.
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All control systems perform computation according to ART, including purely mechanical ones like the centrifugal governor, which therefore cannot serve as a counter-example in cognitive computationalism.