[lbo-talk] New Cornell study suggests that mental processing is continuous, not like a computer

[Autoplectic]

On 7/3/05, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cornell University News Service
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> June 27, 2005
> New Cornell study suggests that mental processing is continuous, not
> like a computer
> By Susan S. Lang
> ITHACA, N.Y. -- The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a
> series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive
> science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell
> University study. Instead, the mind should be thought of more as
> working the way biological organisms do: as a dynamic continuum,
> cascading through shades of grey.

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Gee, Gerald Edelman, Gregory Bateson, Hubert Dreyfus, Lynn Margulis
and others have been arguing against computational approaches to
vocabularies-ontologies of 'the mental' for well over 20+ years. Human
beings are ecosystems that talk and write and paint and make music and
cook and love and hate........

Ian