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 u...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/grah19604 |
Table of Contents:
- The internet-brain and the computer-brain
- Metaphors for the brain
- What we don't know about brains
- From connectomics to dynomics
- How the internet works
- The internet metaphor : first steps to a new theory of the brain
- Critique of the internet metaphor
- The internet metaphor in action : emerging models and new technologies
- The internet metaphor, AI, and us.