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An Internet in Your Head : A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works /
Whether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers. In neuroscience, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the field for much of the modern era. But as neuroscientists increasingly reevaluate their assumptions about how brains work, we need a new metaphor to help us ask...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 1 The Internet-Brain and the Computer-Brain
- 2 Metaphors for the Brain
- 3 What We Don't Know About Brains
- 4 From Connectomics to Dynomics
- 5 How the Internet Works
- 6 The Internet Metaphor: First Steps to a New Theory of the Brain
- 7 Critique of the Internet Metaphor
- 8 The Internet Metaphor in Action: Emerging Models and New Technologies
- 9 The Internet Metaphor, AI, and Us
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index