The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is the Metaphor Really Useful?
In the last ten, 15 years we have developed a better understanding of how the brain is connected to another body part. I became interested in this kind of idea working when i was studying brains and the visual system. And just kind ofs a side project, i became a researcher for a book about email. But i quickly discovered that there are deep principles in how the internet is organized. This gives rise to email, ultimately emales just one part of it. The estructureof the internet has kind of conceptual framework that that is very deep,. It's solving problems that very quickly realize are very similar to the kinds of problems the brains have to solve. All these problems are ones that brains
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