It has a lot to do with Descartes as well. First-order predicate binary logic as the main or sole kind of cognition, which will likely dominate thought until a half century after Chomsky dies.
Actually, the very idea of mind as an entity rather than a process, which goes back to Aristotle at least. We'd be in a better space if Heraclitus had dominated.
It’s awesome to see how even the greatest minds can confuse the explanation or the abstractions we made of what we perceibe with the phenomena itself. I think it all comes from Descartes and later interpretation of him. Putting reasoning first lead us straight to a subculture that ended up views humans as, in this case, thinking machines. We need the brain to have language and comunicate, but language and comunication does not happen in the brain, they happen in the relational space of the coexistance that we live everyday with other people.
It has a lot to do with Descartes as well. First-order predicate binary logic as the main or sole kind of cognition, which will likely dominate thought until a half century after Chomsky dies.
Actually, the very idea of mind as an entity rather than a process, which goes back to Aristotle at least. We'd be in a better space if Heraclitus had dominated.
It’s awesome to see how even the greatest minds can confuse the explanation or the abstractions we made of what we perceibe with the phenomena itself. I think it all comes from Descartes and later interpretation of him. Putting reasoning first lead us straight to a subculture that ended up views humans as, in this case, thinking machines. We need the brain to have language and comunicate, but language and comunication does not happen in the brain, they happen in the relational space of the coexistance that we live everyday with other people.
The mind as a computer is a useful metaphor.
I wonder how many breakthroughs start when we stop confusing our models with the reality they're trying to describe.
What becomes visible when the metaphor stops being the destination?
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