Knot/categories

Famous quotes containing the words knot and/or categories:

    O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
    It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.
    Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)