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The ghost in the machine is British philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s derogatory description for René Descartes’ mind-body dualism. The phrase was introduced in Ryle’s book The Concept of Mind, written in 1949, to highlight the absurdity of dualist systems like Descartes’ where mental activity carries on in parallel to physical action, but where their means of interaction are unknown or, at best, speculative. (from Wikipedia)
It’s also the notion that as the numerous electronic bits in a computer ecosystem form pattern after pattern, unintentional patterns materialize as a side effect, with unpredictable results.
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