Rupert Sheldrake
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?
This surprise exchange between Daniel Dennett and Rupert Sheldrake at Hay on Wye came at the end of a discussion between Oxford neuroscientist Colin Blakemore, novelist Joanna Kavenna and Rupert on the machine as metaphor, hosted by David Malone.
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Beyond the Machine: Metaphors of the Body
http://www.sheldrake.org/videos/beyond-the-machine-metaphors-of-the-body
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Sheldrake was too polite, I'll go all out and say Dennett and Dawkins are without as dishonest as it gets. But you need to know what's being played out to understand that.