The Idea of the Brain - Matthew Cobb
A History
KORTE INHOUD
This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe. Today we tend to picture the brain 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 brain's 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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2020Uitgever: Faber and Faber480 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 178125589XISBN-13: 9781781255896Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Dikke hardback met stofomslag in zeer goede staat. Fotokatern. Engelstalig.; 2020; Reprint; Profile Books; 480 pagina's; Titel: The Idea of the Brain - A History; Ref: 234026 / H24W107
