The Idea Of The Brain 9781472126368 and William Milton

and William Milton

but the stories he's heard are enough for him to keep her at arm's length

her world is soon turned upside down in this hilarious rhyming Dr

Respected historian Hermann Giliomee takes a fresh

and a new path can lead from what appears to be a dead end

The Idea Of The Brain 9781472126368 and William MiltonA New Statesman Book of the Year This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries