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Amazing computer brain
Written by admin
13 September 2006
What did we do before computers, eh? For one thing we had to come up with a different analogy for the human brain. The Mind is a Metaphor is a slightly unwieldy, yet rather curious collection of 18th-century metaphors for the old noggin. Ships, candles, inner-eyes, they had the lot. Should help flesh out your introspective period pieces.

The Mind is a Metaphor

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