Society of Mind
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is probably the least helpful if we want to explain | is probably the least helpful if we want to explain | ||
how the mind works. Many metaphors have been invented | how the mind works. Many metaphors have been invented | ||
| - | over time to do this | + | over time to do this. George Lakoff said: |
| - | one of the most advanced technologies that we humans | + | |
| - | currently have, as Rodney Brooks | + | : "When you start to study the brain and body scientifically, you inevitably wind up using metaphors. Metaphors for the mind, as you say, have evolved over time -- from machines to switchboards to computers." |
| + | [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lakoff/lakoff_p2.html|George Lakoff] | ||
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| + | Curiously the brain always seems to be one of the most advanced technologies | ||
| + | that we humans currently have, as Rodney Brooks argues: | ||
: If we look back over recent centuries we will see the brain described as a hydrodynamic machine, clockwork, and as a steam engine. "When I was a child in the 1950's I read that the human brain was a telephone switching network. Later it became a digital computer, and then a massively parallel digital computer. A few years ago someone put up their hand after a talk I had given at the University of Utah and asked a question I had been waiting for for a couple of years: 'Isn't the human brain just like the world wide web?' The brain always seems to be one of the most advanced technologies that we humans currently have." - [http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_5.html Rodney A. Brooks] | : If we look back over recent centuries we will see the brain described as a hydrodynamic machine, clockwork, and as a steam engine. "When I was a child in the 1950's I read that the human brain was a telephone switching network. Later it became a digital computer, and then a massively parallel digital computer. A few years ago someone put up their hand after a talk I had given at the University of Utah and asked a question I had been waiting for for a couple of years: 'Isn't the human brain just like the world wide web?' The brain always seems to be one of the most advanced technologies that we humans currently have." - [http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_5.html Rodney A. Brooks] | ||
