Passed along in email was this article ... which I found riveting, even if I'm not sure I understood it all. The good news is it's written in English. The bad news is that I'm not smart enough, even if I positively loved it.
.................................The Empty Brain..........................
Your brain does not
process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain
is not a computer
By Robert Epstein in Aeon
A couple of excerpts:
-- ....there is no reason to believe that any two of us are changed the same way by the same experience.
-- We are organisms, not computers. Get over it. Let’s get on with
the business of trying to understand ourselves, but without being
encumbered by unnecessary intellectual baggage. The IP metaphor has had a
half-century run, producing few, if any, insights along the way. The
time has come to hit the DELETE key.
My brain seems to store opinions, but doesn't store any information that might justify them.
ReplyDeleteAll an illusion until you get kicked in the stomach, eh?
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