I believe that robotic thinking helps precision of psychological thought, and will continue to help it until psychophysiology is so far advanced that… - Edwin Boring

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I believe that robotic thinking helps precision of psychological thought, and will continue to help it until psychophysiology is so far advanced that an image is nothing other than a neural event, and object constancy is obviously just something that happens in the brain. That time is still a long way off, and in the interval I choose to sit cozily with my robot, squeezing his hand and feeling a thrill -- a scientist's thrill -- when he squeezes mine back again.

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About Edwin Boring

Edwin Garrigues Boring (23 October 1886 – 1 July 1968) was an American experimental psychologist, who later became one of the first historians of psychology.

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Alternative Names: Edwin Garrigues Edwin Garrigues Boring
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