Corey J. Maley
@coreymaley.net
Philosopher of computation, neuroscience, and AI. Associate professor at Purdue University.
https://coreymaley.net
https://coreymaley.net
We come at this from different points, but I completely agree! Here’s a pretty brief, broad-strokes paper on my take:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Frontiers | How (and why) to think that the brain is literally a computer
The relationship between brains and computers is often taken to be merely metaphorical. However, genuine computation can be implemented in virtually any medi...
www.frontiersin.org
August 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
We come at this from different points, but I completely agree! Here’s a pretty brief, broad-strokes paper on my take:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
I like this paper, but I take issue with how they apply Marrian terms to the different levels. What they’re doing is more “zooming in” at a particular Marrian level than moving from one Marrian level to another. I wrote about that here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The physicality of representation - Synthese
Representation is typically taken to be importantly separate from its physical implementation. This is exemplified in Marr’s three-level framework, widely cited and often adopted in neuroscience. Howe...
link.springer.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I like this paper, but I take issue with how they apply Marrian terms to the different levels. What they’re doing is more “zooming in” at a particular Marrian level than moving from one Marrian level to another. I wrote about that here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You’re so welcome Brett. You deserve the best.
July 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You’re so welcome Brett. You deserve the best.
Zoe Drayson says “yes”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I say “no”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And Danielle Williams says “it depends on what you mean”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read all about it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I say “no”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And Danielle Williams says “it depends on what you mean”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read all about it!
Defending the medium‐independence of computation
The computational properties of a system are generally thought to be independent in some sense from its physical properties, in virtue of the fact that computation is a formally characterized concept...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Zoe Drayson says “yes”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I say “no”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And Danielle Williams says “it depends on what you mean”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read all about it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I say “no”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
And Danielle Williams says “it depends on what you mean”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read all about it!
I’m excited to read this!
June 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I’m excited to read this!
Usually when I read an academic paper that seems like it’s making a really stupid point, I give the author(s) the benefit of the doubt and check to see whether maybe it’s me—not them—who’s missing something. Because who knows? Maybe *I’m* wrong, and I can actually learn something.
May 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Usually when I read an academic paper that seems like it’s making a really stupid point, I give the author(s) the benefit of the doubt and check to see whether maybe it’s me—not them—who’s missing something. Because who knows? Maybe *I’m* wrong, and I can actually learn something.
So did you eat the microphone? Or did it really just absorb into your face? 😂
December 7, 2024 at 5:01 AM
So did you eat the microphone? Or did it really just absorb into your face? 😂
It doesn’t take much for a system to be interpretable as implementing all TM-computable functions, like the rule 110 cellular automaton. We need more constraints on what counts as the system actually computing, vs. being describable via some automaton.
November 28, 2024 at 1:09 AM
It doesn’t take much for a system to be interpretable as implementing all TM-computable functions, like the rule 110 cellular automaton. We need more constraints on what counts as the system actually computing, vs. being describable via some automaton.