Date: 1999
"Thus the view that the brain as a general-purpose symbol-manipulating device operates like a digital computer is an empirical hypothesis which has had its day."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"Whether the brain operates like a computer is a strictly empirical question to be settled by neurophysiology."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"No such simple answer can be given to the related but quite different question: whether the mind functions like a digital computer, that is, whether one is justified in using a computer model in psychology."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"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."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 1999
"In the absence of any empirical or a priori argument that such a formalism for processing physical inputs does or must exist, and given the empirical evidence that the brain functions like an analogue computer, there is no reason to suppose and every reason to doubt that the processing of...
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)
Date: 2001
"How romantic to think the mind a machine reliable enough to transform the same causes over and over again into the same effects. When even toasters fail!"
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2006
"More generally, the amygdala acts as a radar for the brain, calling attention to whatever might be new, puzzling, or important to learn more about."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: 2007
"Cognitive scientists sometimes make the analogy that the brain is like a computer’s CPU, or hardware, while the mind is like the programs or software running on the CPU."
preview | full record— Daniel J. Levitin (1957 - )
Date: July-August, 2008
"When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating 'like clockwork.'"
preview | full record— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)
Date: July-August, 2008
"Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them [our brains] as operating 'like computers.'"
preview | full record— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)