“Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.” WorldGivingMindMeanDangerHabitConversationComplexesWebsiteThumbsHabits Of MindThumbs UpThumbs Down Author:Sherry Turkle
“The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.” MindIdeasSelfLeftPsychologyComputerMachinesConcreteModelingPsychoanalysis Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.” MindLongCertainSexTakenPsychologyOne ThingBecomingComputerMachinesRelationPressureThreatIntelligencePhilosopherObsessionTopicsFascinationTabooUrgencyRiddlePreoccupationUnder Pressure Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.” MindPsychologyComputer Author:Sherry Turkle
“If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.” IfsMindSelfInterestBehindsTheoryMachinesGuiltyNervousInterpretationFascinationPreoccupation Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
