hen comments on Self-Congratulatory Rationalism - Less Wrong

51 Post author: ChrisHallquist 01 March 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 April 2014 03:37:20AM 0 points [-]

Of course. A stroke, for example, is a purely hardware problem. In more general terms, hardware = brain and software = mind.

Huh, I don't think I've ever understood that metaphor before. Thanks. It's oddly dualist.