Canadian cognitive scientist who argued for a classical computational architecture of mind — symbol manipulation over syntactically structured representations — and against analog mental imagery.
Defended classical computationalism against connectionism; argued that mental images are not analog pictures but propositional descriptions (the imagery debate with Stephen Kosslyn); developed the concept of cognitive penetrability as a test for cognitive architecture.
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