Dotzler, Bernhard J. (2009) ...the right kind of scientific objects...: An Epilogue with Warren McCulloch's Embodiments of Mind. BERICHTE ZUR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE, 32 (1). pp. 100-108. ISSN 0170-6233,
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Warren McCulloch marks the brain explicitly as an epistemic object. Since then, to see 'in statu nascendi' what brain research means implies the irrefutability of the truth that the mind is in the head. And it implies to see the contingency of this knowledge. This again allows to ask for more details about the object and its destiny - beginning with the riddle, why McCulloch is not forgotten until today, but his clear designation is forgotten. A comparison between McCulloch's Embodiments of Mind and John von Neumann's The Computer and the Brain should help to follow the traces of this riddle.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; close reading; brain; mind; calculus; cybernetics; Turing Machine; computer; visualization |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 100 Philosophy 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2020 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2020 09:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29307 |
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