Annie Murphy Paul on The Extended Mind
The Informed Life
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The Brain as Computer
The old way of looking at the way th mind worksiif we might call it like brain centric, has led to designs for the world that we live in. We understand the brain and its workings through metaphor. And one of the most common metaphors is the brain as a computer. That notion got its start in the cognitive revolution of the twentieth century. It's been very fruitful as a kind of paradime for exploring the brain and inventing all the applications and technology that is so useful to us these days. But it is, again, very limiting in its capacity to explain to ourselves what the what the brain is, what it does.
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