The Idea of the Brain
Matthew Cobb
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The Idea of the Brain

A History

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§Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis 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 of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and histori...