Re: brains, telphones and microprocessors

Luiz Ernesto Merkle (lmerkle who-is-at julian.uwo.ca)
Sat, 02 Oct 1999 19:56:53 -0500

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George,
I don't have the reference, but I read somewhere that Sigmund Freud
used the metaphor of the telephone network for the brain. The
reference was criticizing the computational metaphor present in
understandigs of cognition as information processing.
Luiz

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