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Subrajyoti Duarah

Rupert Sheldrake and Daniel Dennett at Hay on Wye

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Scientific Concepts and Understanding

From Descartes' view of the heart as a pump to Dennett's conception of the brain as a computer, our understanding of the body is permeated with mechanical metaphors. Is it an error to believe that the body is a machine? Should we find a new adventure in alternative metaphors of the body, or would this be a romantic illusion?...

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