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You are the activity of your neurons.
Sebastian Seung • Connectome
brain organization provides us with both a powerful start-up kit and an equally powerful learning machine.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
The “naked” brain, the un-extended brain, is not that powerful.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
thirty billion neurons (30,000,000,000), but no one would be surprised if the figure was significantly higher or lower.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
All of her patients had unusual patterns of high and low levels of ability, what Sukhareva called ‘a mixture of finesse and silliness’.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
In understandable language, Richard J. Haier explains cutting-edge techniques based on genetics, DNA, and imaging of brain connectivity and function.
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science
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a supposed designer of our biosphere will seem not only morally deficient, but intellectually unremarkable.