论文标题
寻找计算机隐喻的替代方案
In search for an alternative to the computer metaphor of the mind and brain
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论文摘要
脑部计算机的隐喻奠定了思想的自称计算本质，从柏拉图哲学的无形逻辑到经验科学的重要基础。但是，与科学中许多持久的隐喻一样，计算机隐喻已经进行了探索和伸展，足以揭示其边界。这些边界突出了我们对大脑在有机体目标指导，聪明的行为和思想中的作用的理解方面的扩大差距。为了寻找一个更合适的隐喻，反映了思想和大脑的潜在不可误的功能，八个作者小组回答了以下问题：（1）计算机对大脑和认知的隐喻我们了解什么？ （2）该计算机隐喻的局限性是什么？ （3）什么比喻应该替代计算隐喻？ （4）哪些发现支持替代隐喻？尽管同意感受计算机隐喻的狭窄的压力，但作者还是提出了令人兴奋的隐喻选择的令人兴奋的多样性，以将来对思想和大脑进行研究。
The brain-as-computer metaphor has anchored the professed computational nature of the mind, wresting it down from the intangible logic of Platonic philosophy to a material basis for empirical science. However, as with many long-lasting metaphors in science, the computer metaphor has been explored and stretched long enough to reveal its boundaries. These boundaries highlight widening gaps in our understanding of the brain's role in an organism's goal-directed, intelligent behaviors and thoughts. In search of a more appropriate metaphor that reflects the potentially noncomputable functions of mind and brain, eight author groups answer the following questions: (1) What do we understand by the computer metaphor of the brain and cognition? (2) What are some of the limitations of this computer metaphor? (3) What metaphor should replace the computational metaphor? (4) What findings support alternative metaphors? Despite agreeing about feeling the strain of the strictures of computer metaphors, the authors suggest an exciting diversity of possible metaphoric options for future research into the mind and brain.
