In-der-Blog-sein

Full-Tilt Boogie has an interview with Hubert Dreyfus about his life's work. I found this bit, which appeals to Descartes to reinforce a point, a tad ironic.

I don’t understand anything about computers. They were always criticizing me that “He doesn’t even know how to program a computer,” which I don’t. But, I knew what the essence of computers was and that’s what was important – the way they had bits of data and followed rules to organize those data into representations. Descartes said you don’t have to know computers to know that.

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