"In fact, the same empirical evidence presented for the assumption that the mind functions like a digital computer tends, when considered without making this assumption, to show that the assumption is empirically untenable."
— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Author
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
MIT Press
Date
1999
Metaphor
"In fact, the same empirical evidence presented for the assumption that the mind functions like a digital computer tends, when considered without making this assumption, to show that the assumption is empirically untenable."
Metaphor in Context
No independent, empirical evidence exists for the psychological assumption. In fact, the same empirical evidence presented for the assumption that the mind functions like a digital computer tends, when considered without making this assumption, to show that the assumption is empirically untenable.
(p. 174)
(p. 174)
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Provenance
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Citation
Hubert L. Dreyfus, What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason 6th printing (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999).
Date of Entry
02/22/2011
