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Monday, May 7, 2012

Biology of Mind


"Because of its broad implications for individual and social well-being, there is now a consensus in the scientific community that the biology of mind will be to the twenty-first century what the biology of the gene was to the twentieth century."

Eric Kandel, In Search of Memory

Friday, March 9, 2012

A beautiful mess





The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.












- William F. Allman (from Apprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989)