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I think it's ironic that Elon Musk starts off by railing against reasoning by analogy and then ends up with analogizing human behavior using the technological m
by shalmanese 15y ago
I think it's ironic that Elon Musk starts off by railing against reasoning by analogy and then ends up with analogizing human behavior using the technological metaphor of his age.
- shalmanese 15y agoMore specifically, it's our tendency to rely on the current technological metaphor to analogize the brain that contributes to misunderstanding and false equivalency: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/metaphors.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/metaphors.pdf