[ print ]  The Grand Analogy  Today computationalists and
cognitive scientists—those researchers who see digital computing
as a model for human thought and the mind—are nearly unanimous
in believing the Grand Analogy and teaching it to their
students. And whether you accept it or not, the analogy is
milestone of modern intellectual history. It partly explains why
a solid majority of contemporary computationalists and cognitive
scientists believe that eventually, you will be able to give
your laptop a (real not simulated) mind by downloading and
executing the right software app. Whereupon if you tell the
machine, "imagine a rose," it will conjure one up in its mind,
just as you do. Tell it to "recall an embarrassing moment" and
it will recall something and feel embarrassed, just as you
might. In this view, embarrassed computers are just around the
corner.  But no such software will ever exist, and the analogy
is false and has slowed our progress in grasping the actual
phenomenology of mind. We have barely begu