Why has the brain always been our hardest puzzle? with Matthew Cobb

How have humans through the ages tried to crack the mysteries of the brain, and why are our theories always yoked to the most recent technologies? What does the history of brain science have to do with bumps on the skull, electricity, Frankenstein, animatronics, telegraphs, telephone exchanges, computers, and LLMs? What’s the next metaphor we’ll use to try to capture the brain’s magic? Join this week with guest Matthew Cobb.

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Cobb M. The idea of the brain: The past and future of neuroscience. Hachette UK; 2020 Apr 21.

McCulloch WS, Pitts W. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. The bulletin of mathematical biophysics. 1943 Dec;5(4):115-33.

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