- Title
- Review: the historical context of the computer metaphor of the brain
- Creator
- Abrahams, Natasha
- Relation
- Humanity Issue 8
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle/Macquarie University
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Popular understandings of the human brain in the twenty-first century are characterised through a computer metaphor. In this review, I situate the computer metaphor within its historical context, positioning it as the most recent incarnation of metaphors of the brain which draw upon technology. I argue that communication technology metaphors produced for the brain appear to capture its essential characteristics, due to these technologies being designed to emulate human labour.
- Subject
- computer metaphor; brain; Chrysalis; Humanity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1459144
- Identifier
- uon:45591
- Language
- eng
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