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The Idea of the Brain

- A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Af: Professor Matthew Cobb Engelsk Paperback

The Idea of the Brain

- A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Af: Professor Matthew Cobb Engelsk Paperback
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis 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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Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis 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?
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 480
ISBN-13: 9781781255902
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1781255903
Kategori: Populærvidenskab
Udg. Dato: 4 mar 2021
Længde: 46mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 4 mar 2021
Forfatter(e): Professor Matthew Cobb
Forfatter(e) Professor Matthew Cobb


Kategori Populærvidenskab


ISBN-13 9781781255902


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 480


Udgave


Længde 46mm


Bredde 198mm


Højde 130mm


Udg. Dato 4 mar 2021


Oplagsdato 4 mar 2021


Forlag Profile Books Ltd

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