"In what way is the mind like a computer that is different from its resemblance, for example, to a telephone switchboard (which was the most popular image in psychology some years ago), or to a cathedral, which once long ago was also a major poetical image (consider: the caverns of the mind, the vaults of the intellect, the altar of his genius, the name of his soul, the pillar of the community, etc.), or to an eagle?"
— Shipley, Thorne (1927-2009)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Routledge
Date
1995
Metaphor
"In what way is the mind like a computer that is different from its resemblance, for example, to a telephone switchboard (which was the most popular image in psychology some years ago), or to a cathedral, which once long ago was also a major poetical image (consider: the caverns of the mind, the vaults of the intellect, the altar of his genius, the name of his soul, the pillar of the community, etc.), or to an eagle?"
Metaphor in Context
…as we have already remarked, that stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. The critical task would seem to be to describe in what way is the mind more or differently like a prison or a flower-bed or a computer than, let us say, it is like a fly-wheel governor (the first embodiment of the mechanical feedback principle) or like a fly-swatter. In what way is the mind like a computer that is different from its resemblance, for example, to a telephone switchboard (which was the most popular image in psychology some years ago), or to a cathedral, which once long ago was also a major poetical image (consider: the caverns of the mind, the vaults of the intellect, the altar of his genius, the name of his soul, the pillar of the community, etc.), or to an eagle?
(p. 182)
(p. 182)
Categories
Provenance
Contributed by Suzanne Morgen; searching GoogleBooks
Citation
Shipley, Thorne. Intersensory Origin of Mind: A Revisit to Emergent Evolution. London: Routledge, 1995. Link to GoogleBooks.
Date of Entry
12/06/2009
