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From: BACH@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
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Subject: Brain and technology
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 11:08:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 13 11:08:41 1984
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From:  Rene Bach <BACH@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>

In response to which organ is responsible for the technology advance :

The brain is not the agent : the hand is what has allowed man to progress.
Especially the fact that the thumb was opposite the other fingers. And being
able to free the hands from walking (by standing up) is also a factor to be
considered.  One couls even argue that the human brain would not be what
it currently is without that hand.
Obviously the brain is what tells the hand what to do, but it is the hand
which does it.

Rene