Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan to the West. A murderous barber and his woman companion who cooks the victims in pies. A bitter show-biz story of financial rise and moral fall--told chronologically backwards. The ruin of marriages. The disappointments of infidelity. The decline of the chorus-girl kick line as a metaphor for the loss of American innocence...
...Computers are more than a metaphor of mind," said Allen Newall, a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh...
Using computers as a metaphor for the mind is not the most productive way to gain knowledge of the brain, a panelist in the symposium, "Mind and Machines: Philosphical Perspectives," said yesterday...
Using computers as a metaphor for the brain rather than making a more direct comparison underestimates the importance computers can have in our understanding of human intelligence, Newall explained to an almost capacity crowd in Boylston Auditorium...
...sweep of what we can do with a computer is continuing to expand. That's odd for a technology," said Newall, differentiating computers from other technologies which man has used as a metaphor for the mind...