Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The Brain as Computer Metaphor


This metaphor has been around since the invention of the computer. Here are two academic articles and two popular culture articles, one each on either side of the issue. The 1999 article by Steven Pinker seems to be the one that set the stage for the debate.

You may have to log onto the campus library website to get access to Pinker's article.




“How the Mind Works” Steven Pinker
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08538.x

“The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism” by Jerry Fodor
 https://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/jerry-fodor/the-trouble-with-psychological-darwinism


Two Popular Culture articles on the Brain as Computer Metaphor
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/opinion/sunday/face-it-your-brain-is-a-computer.html


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