Sherry Turkle Quotes About Psychology

Quotes about: Psychology

• 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.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sex, Taken, Long

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.285, MIT Press

• The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

  Sherry Turkle

  Psychology, Mind, Computer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Ideas, Psychology

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.282, MIT Press

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