Hullo? Does anyone know who first said “The ghost in the machine” and its context? That phrase keeps coming up, but now it’s like “kleenex” or “bandaid”–it only seems to signify itself.
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I think (?) it may have originated in Arthur Koestler’s essay of that title – The Ghost in the Machine (published 1967), which the Police later took as the name of one of their albums…
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0140191925/102-2836609-9829712
Ah, thank you . . . it was starting to sound Shakespearean to me. I even googled it and couldn’t really “locate” an answer that rose consistently to the top so I had no basis for thinking one answer was more right or true than another. Therein lies the evil of Googling. One (or at least I) tend to think that if you can’t Google it, it doesn’t exist–an answer, that is.
Gilbert Ryle used it in ‘the concept of mind’, written in the 1940s. i’m not sure if he thought it up though.