 Program, Game, AssemblerMichael L. Johnson
Chapter 13 in Mind, Language, Machine, 1988, pp 69-72 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In the wake of these concerns looms the question that most intrigues: how are mind and machine, whose evolutions have been perhaps too easily analogized, alike and different? Language, the third sector of the circle of metaphor, is obviously the key to properly exploring that question. Language is software, the ‘languescape’ of both man and computer; microelectronic circuitry and neural tissues are, after all, just two kinds of hardware. J. Z. Young is helpful in this connection: Information is carried by physical entities, such as books or sound waves or brains, but it is not itself material. Information in a living system is a feature of the order and arrangement of its parts, which arrangement provides the signs that constitute a ‘code’ or ‘language.’… The organization of the brain can be considered as the written script of the programs of our lives. So the important feature of brains is not the material that they are made of but the information that they carry. Keywords: Neural Tissue; Transformation Rule; Ordinary Language; Physical Entity; Machine Language (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19404-9_13 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_13 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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