Dotzler Bernhard J
Universität Regensburg, Regensburg.
Ber Wiss. 2009 Mar;32(1):100-8. doi: 10.1002/bewi.200901377.
Warren McCulloch marks the brain explicitly as an epistemic object. Since then, to see 'in statu nascendi' what brain research means implies the irrefutability of the truth that the mind is in the head. And it implies to see the contingency of this knowledge. This again allows to ask for more details about the object and its destiny--beginning with the riddle, why McCulloch is not forgotten until today, but his clear designation is forgotten. A comparison between McCulloch's Embodiments of Mind and John von Neumann's The Computer and the Brain should help to follow the traces of this riddle.
沃伦·麦卡洛克明确地将大脑标记为一个认知对象。从那时起,要“在其诞生之际”看清大脑研究意味着什么,就意味着“心智存在于大脑之中”这一真理的不可辩驳性。而且这意味着要看到这种知识的偶然性。这反过来又使得我们可以追问关于该对象及其命运的更多细节——从这个谜题开始,即为什么麦卡洛克至今未被遗忘,而他的明确论断却被遗忘了。对麦卡洛克的《心智的体现》和约翰·冯·诺依曼的《计算机与大脑》进行比较,应该有助于追寻这个谜题的踪迹。