Knowledge As Algorithm And As Metaphor

KNOWLEDGE AS ALGORITHM AND AS METAPHOR / Jacob Bronowski. - SERIES: Origins of knowledge and imagination| no. 2 - Jacob Bronowski speaks on different concepts of knowledge and imagination. In this talk Bronowski examines symbolism in literature and science. He shows how many persistent assumtions are derived from primitive language. Symbols are explained as the solution of nature's code. Though all events are inter-connected, scientists characteristically put a fence around their senses to blot out extraneous input. He sees this as the origin of much scientific paradoxes. - RECORDED: Yale University, 1967. BROADCAST: WBAI, 21 Jan. 1968.