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Kurzfassung auf Englisch:

Computer science concepts, such as symbol, program, implementation, level etc. play an important role in many explanations of the mind. Especially, in the continuing discussion aroused by J. Scarle's "Chinese Room Argument", these are (mis)interpreted in conflicting ways, even among computer scientists. After explaining the fundamental computational concepts in question, with special attention to the notion of 'level', different sorts of models in computer simulation are introduced, which differ from each other as to their epistemological and semantic status. Connectionists Networks. as models, turn out to have two incompatible intcrpretations, "subsymbolic" and "computational". The alleged philosophical implications, as to eliminative materialism and functionalism in particular, are reviewed. In the concluding paragraph, the purported explanations are put into a broader epistemological contoxt. Whilst bodily processes are apt to be partially explained "computationally", the first person phenomenon of the conscious mind does resist these third person explanation attempts.