THE IDEA OF THE BRAIN : A HISTORY 'THIS IS A MASTERPIECE' - ADAM RUTHERFORD

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THE IDEA OF THE BRAIN : A HISTORY 'THIS IS A MASTERPIECE' - ADAM RUTHERFORD

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp. But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?

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Barcode 9781781255896
Δραστηριότητα Ξενόγλωσσα Οικογένεια Ξενόγλωσσα Λογοτεχνικά Εκδότης Profile Books Ltd
Εξώφυλλο Hardback
Σελίδες 480
Ημ. Έκδοσης 03/2020
ISBN 978-1-78125-589-6
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