The Human Animal is just a Machine - Warren McCulloch

The human animal, is just like other animals, simply a product and a puppet of a super-predetermined mechanical nature. There’s no free-will and no freedom of choice and nobody there doing the choosing. The brain is an anastomotic machine that automatically combines and glues all the senses and sensory input into one stream, one story, which we call experience. When it deviates from the “normal“ we call it psychosis. This stream, psychosis or not, is nothing but a dream, a byproduct and an epiphenomena. Just the result of many underlying fully automatic mechanisms. The real intelligence is not in the byproducts, which we call thoughts, but in the nature of how the machine operates and works. - The Nacre God “If I do it, there is a mechanism that can do it“ - Warren McCulloch was a psychiatrist, computer scientist, neurophysiologist, poet, and philosopher. He worked with Norbert Wiener to pioneer the new field of cybernetics, and is sometimes credited as a founder of artificial i