The brain abstracted simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience
"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"--
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2024]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Footholds
- Part II 3. The Reflex theory: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience
- 4. Your brain is like a computer
- 5. Ideal patterns and "Simple" cells
- 6. Why "Neural Representations?"
- 7. The Heraclitean brain
- Part III 8. Prediction, comprehension, and the limits of science
- 9. Revisiting the fallacy of misplaced concreteness
- 10. Cartesian idealisation.
