Evolved biocultural beings (who invented computers)

Frontiers in Psychology

Louise Barrett¹ 

关键词: evolutionary psychology;    extended mind;    cognition;    culture;    embodied cognition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01047

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

To assert that there is no alternative to digital computation is a philosophically weak position, not least because the history of science provides ample evidence of prominent ideas eventually shown to be wrong: phlogiston and the luminiferous aether were also “the only game in town” once upon a time. The brain has been likened to many other cultural tools that were, unsurprisingly, considered to be of great significance in their time; the computational metaphor is one in a long line of metaphors that reflect the most advanced technology of their day. There is no reason to imagine that we have finally managed to hit on the correct one, as opposed to the one that just reflects something about the times in which we live (Barrett, 2011).

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