Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology

by Raymond Tallis

The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why. Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Professor Tallis shows how their misuse has a lured a whole generation into accepting the computational model of the mind. First of all these words were used literally in the description of the human mind. Then computer scientists applied them metaphorically to the workings of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907845940
• ISBN13: 9780907845942
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Societas
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"