According to the neuroscience historian Stanley Finger, Sherrington probably borrowed the loom metaphor from an earlier writer, the psychologist Fredric Myers, who asked his readers to "picture the human brain as a vast manufactory, in which thousands of looms, of complex and differing patterns, are habitually at work". Perhaps in part because of its slightly cryptic nature, the "enchanted loom" has been an attractive metaphor for many writers about the brain, and has supplied the title for several books, including the following: . Published 1985 in Spanish by Salvat, with the title "El telar mágico: El cerebro humano y el ordenador" (The magic loom : Human brain and the computer)  Cotterill, Rodney (1998) . Enchanted Looms: Conscious networks in brains and computer. Cambridge University Press. . Category:Sleep Category:Consciousness Category: Metaphor
According to the neuroscience historian Stanley Finger, Sherrington probably borrowed the loom metaphor from an earlier writer, the psychologist Fredric Myers, who asked his readers to "picture the human brain as a vast manufactory, in which thousands of looms, of complex and differing patterns, are habitually at work". Perhaps in part because of its slightly cryptic nature, the "enchanted loom" has been an attractive metaphor for many writers about the brain, and has supplied the title for several books, including the following: . Published 1985 in Spanish by Salvat, with the title "El telar mágico: El cerebro humano y el ordenador" (The magic loom : Human brain and the computer) . See also Computational theory of mind Mechanism (philosophy) Strange loop Category:Sleep Category:Consciousness Category: Metaphors Category:Philosophical analogie
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Cotterill, Rodney (1998) . Enchanted Looms: Conscious networks in brains and computer. Cambridge University Press. .
See also Computational theory of mind Mechanism (philosophy) Strange loop
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