"If the brain is not a serial algorithm-crunching machine, though, what is it?"
— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
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June 27, 2015
Metaphor
"If the brain is not a serial algorithm-crunching machine, though, what is it?"
Metaphor in Context
If the brain is not a serial algorithm-crunching machine, though, what is it? A lot of neuroscientists are inclined to disregard the big picture, focusing instead on understanding narrow, measurable phenomena (like the mechanics of how calcium ions are trafficked through a single neuron), without addressing the larger conceptual question of what it is that the brain does.
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Gary Marcus, "Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer," The New York Times (June 27, 2015). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
07/06/2015
