The coat hook of the mind

Posted by Jochen Fromm-4 on May 06, 2010; 6:11am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-coat-hook-of-the-mind-tp5012713.html

Bergson allegedly said that the brain is the
coat hook of the mind ("das Gehirn ist der
Kleiderhaken des Geistes"), but I can't pin
down the origin of this quote.

In modern language, one could say that the brain
is like a wire frame model or polygon mesh of the
mind: the vertices correspond to neural assemblies,
and the edges to connections betwen them.

Are these metaphors useful?

-J.



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