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that we humans currently have, as Rodney Brooks argues:

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: 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]

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: "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]

In the '''mind-as-machine''' metaphor the mind is a

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 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]
 In the '''mind-as-machine''' metaphor the mind is a