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October 10, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Computer Science, Metaphor Theory

The Final Metaphor

October 10, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Computer Science, Metaphor Theory
The Final Metaphor

The computing revolution may have made the line graph of human progress look like a barely tilted horizon, broken by a near-vertical spurt.

October 10, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Computer Science, Metaphor Theory

Tagged: Mutual information, Boolean algebra, Logic gates, History of Computing, Turing Machines, Halting problem, Hyper-computation, Philip Johnson-Laird

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October 10, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory

A Tantalising Possibility

October 10, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory
A Tantalising Possibility

Learning at university sometimes feels like playing a slow and very joyless version of Tetris.

October 10, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory

Tagged: Fritz Kahn

April 6, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory

The Poet Inside All of Us

April 6, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory
The Poet Inside All of Us

Good metaphors won’t come easily. Most of the time, we fumble awkwardly around our mental lexicon for an apt description.

April 6, 2016
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory

Tagged: Artificial intelligence, Etymology, Connectionism, Embodied cognition

March 14, 2015
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory

It From Bit, Or From Metaphor

March 14, 2015
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory
It From Bit, Or From Metaphor

It is a fact oft-forgotten that the scientist has a mind that is very much like ours. 

March 14, 2015
Lovisa Sundin
Metaphor Theory

Tagged: Embodied cognition, Metaphor, Aristotle, Substance Theory

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