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@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
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The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

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