Abstract:Modern anatomy, medicine, theories of mind-as-computer and even the history of capitalist industrial and corporate management could not exist without the mechanical models of the human body. From Descartes' view of the body as machine assembly to Dennett's conception of the brain as a computer, our understanding of the human body is permeated with mechanical metaphors. Due to the peaking evidence of the failure to explain the complexity of the human phenomena through mechanical models, it seems reasonable to … Show more
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