Challenging the Computational Metaphor: Implications for How We Think
Speakers: Lynn Andrea Stein
Topic(s): Artificial Intelligence,Computer Systems,Computers and Society,Education
Abstract
Von Neumann serial computation has been our field's central metaphor.
It has even influenced how we think brains work. But the sequentialist metaphor isn't right for brains. It isn't even right for what computers do. Instead, computation arises over a community of interacting entities.
When we shift our fundamental metaphor, it changes the way we think
about computation. It changes what we teach our students. And it
changes the ways in which we think about thinking itself.
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Languages Available: English
Last Updated: 12-14-2007
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