On May 5, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> Bergson allegedly said that the brain is the coat hook of the mind ("das
> Gehirn ist der Kleiderhaken des Geistes"), but I can't pin down the origin of
> this quote.
>
> In modern language, one could say that the brain
> is like a wire frame model or polygon mesh of the mind: the vertices
> correspond to neural assemblies, and the edges to connections betwen them.
>
> Are these metaphors useful?
For what?
Miles :)
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