Marshall, J. 1977. "Minds, Machines and Metaphors",
*Studies of Science* 7: 475-88
which goes through the mind metaphors up to the computer. Ends basically by
saying: go for it.
MVH
Eva
At 23.34 -0700 99-10-01, George McKinlay wrote:
>I remember reading an interesting analogy between the human brain and a
>telephone system, needless to say
>it was a rather dated piece of work (the analogy I mean) but it did so
>much smack of the "brain as
>computer" model that I thought it would be rather fun to do a little
>comparison... now my problem (among
>others) is that my brain doesn't store information like a computer does;
>so I have this rather vague
>recollection about that work...
>
>Anybody out there know the source of my telephonic analogy
>
>Of course any other trivial trivia about treating the brain like a hunk of
>silicon would also be
>appreciated
>
>Cheers