Re: The coat hook of the mind

Posted by Miles Parker on May 06, 2010; 6:18am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-coat-hook-of-the-mind-tp5012713p5012737.html


On May 5, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:

> 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?

For what?

Miles :)
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