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Finally, what about the big bad computer metaphor itself?
And several rejected what they saw as a dangerous use of the "computer metaphor".
The computer metaphor model of mind implies that cognition can involve information processing without consciousness playing any role in functioning.
His professorship at Harvard came in 1952, and by the middle of the decade a computer metaphor began to influence psychology – the "cognitive revolution".
Thus, the phrase "computer metaphor" strongly suggests theoretical commitments that are inessential to CCTM.
CCTM is best seen as a family of views, rather than a single well-defined view.[1] It is common to describe CCTM as embodying "the computer metaphor".
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"All the old computer metaphors of files and the like are wrong," he said.
"We are fighting a networked enemy," said Gov. Michael O. Leavitt of Utah, using computer metaphors to make his point.
The links between rudimentary knowledge of brain circuits (we are stuck with computer metaphors) and the language of the mind are inevitably stretched beyond capacity.
In fact, the present results are a clear warning against unfounded computer metaphors.
But with a computer, that metaphor is back by dinner time, claiming a rightful place in the family of the final draft.
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