The Problem With Computers Is That They Use So Little of Our Body
Gossip is Philosophy, Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly. May 1, 1995 12:00 PM. Interview with Brian Eno. Illustrations by Max Kisman.
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Wired executive editor Kevin Kelly interviewed Eno over a period of months via facetoface conversations in California, the phone, and email. Like many of Eno’s projects, it was remixed, reassembled, and tweaked to make it a self-contradictory mess, off-balance, post-cool, and very much where we are.
The following quote was extracted from The New Organon, Francis Bacon. BOOK 1: 1–77. Aphorisms Concerning the Interpretation of Nature: Book 1: 1–77
“Not much can be achieved by the naked hand or by the unaided intellect. Tasks are carried through by tools and helps, and the intellect needs them as much as the hand does. And just as the hand’s tools either give motion or guide it, so in a comparable way the mind’s tools either point the intellect in the direction it should go or offer warnings.”
The Novum Organum, (or Novum Organum Scientiarum – New Instrument of Science), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, originally published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle’s work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism.