Email this article The story of a metaphor
- Authors: Zobin M.L.1
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- Centre of transformational therapy of addictions
- Issue: Vol LI, No 2 (2019)
- Pages: 92-94
- Section: Discussions
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1027-4898/article/view/15669
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/nb15669
- ID: 15669
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The idea of a “biological interface” as a fundamental discovery leading to a paradigm shift in human science, is considered from a critical point of view. It indicates that computer metaphor has a solely utilitarian nature and limited cognitive value to perception of both philosophical problems of consciousness and mental disorders in general.
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Mikhail L. Zobin
Centre of transformational therapy of addictions
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Email: dr.zobin@yandex.ru
Montenegro, Dobrota 85330, Kotor, Montenegro
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