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 ...
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?
作者简介
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Prof. Matthew Cobb is a geneticist with an interest in the French Resistance.
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3.5 看过一些，如果想花最少时间了解学界的主流观点可以看一看，但由于缺失了很多细节，所以，你懂的•••••• 这位仁兄写过的书范围很广很杂，我佩服他可以在很短时间内去读那么多人的书，但是这在某种程度上制约了他书中体现他自己独创思想，深入思考的的地方，读起来像比较标准的综述文。感觉像大卫•伊格曼的风格。
3 有用 ACC 2021-02-04 23:41:05
3.5 看过一些，如果想花最少时间了解学界的主流观点可以看一看，但由于缺失了很多细节，所以，你懂的•••••• 这位仁兄写过的书范围很广很杂，我佩服他可以在很短时间内去读那么多人的书，但是这在某种程度上制约了他书中体现他自己独创思想，深入思考的的地方，读起来像比较标准的综述文。感觉像大卫•伊格曼的风格。