...this is a chicken and egg question? We had hearts&brains before we constructed pumps&computers?https://twitter.com/plinz/status/695046829021532160 …
@danielsilliman @EddaFeutle @newscientist Tech is the artifact. The crucial thing is the concept, not the tool that helps to form it.
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@Plinz@EddaFeutle@newscientist Except the concept is not a fixed thing in the world. The tools, work, etc inform the concept retroactively -
@danielsilliman@EddaFeutle@newscientist Everything is ultimately in the mind, no?
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@Plinz@EddaFeutle@newscientist So yes, the brain is a computer. And we understand that that way because we have computers. -
@danielsilliman@EddaFeutle@newscientist LaMettrie understood it before. But he sure would have liked to have a computer. :)
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