The Idea Of The Brain 9781472126368 - the Peewit Educatorium for

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The Idea Of The Brain 9781472126368 - the Peewit Educatorium forA New Statesman Book of the Year 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