ghost in the machine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The mental activity that occurs in parallel with physical action, but with no known way for the two to interact, according to the theories of mind-body dualism.
    — Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.

词形变化

ghosts in the machine plural ghosts in machines plural

词源

Coined by British philosopher Gilbert Ryle in 1949.
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