The brain abstracted : simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience / / M. Chirimuuta
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| Autore: |
Chirimuuta M (Mazviita)
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| Titolo: |
The brain abstracted : simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience / / M. Chirimuuta
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (374 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 612.8/233 |
| Soggetto topico: | Neurology |
| Neurons | |
| Neurosciences - Philosophy | |
| Cognitive science | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The brain abstracted |
| ISBN: | 0-262-37862-0 |
| 0-262-37863-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910901898503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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