@mrcompletely

Check #TheBrainAbstracted
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History

by #MazviitaChirimuuta

Also check her 4 short video collab w @Brains

https://youtu.be/p_zkx2M6YYw?si=-foXerDfEndhYXe2

@NicoleCRust @caranha @fcampelo

Yeah! related post I read inline:
https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/112581236817436896

Related readings from papers/books comes to mind.. ...yet currently my top fav:
https://mastodon.social/@teixi/112180184417339856

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta

ps: didn't know about F Campelo & C Aranha, Tx!

@anandphilipc @skarthik

Fav way of saying this:

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «
1 Introduction, Footnote 6

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

@MolemanPeter

» However, I will argue at various points in this book that failure to attend to the differences, to disanalogies between living things and artificial devices, has been a mistake.
...
The brain of a genetically modified lab rat is no more like a computer than the brain of a wild rat, regardless of the part played by humans in the animal’s creation. «

#TheBrainAbstracted
#MazviitaChirimuuta
1 Introduction, Footnote 6
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262378635/the-brain-abstracted/

#NeuroBook
#PhilosophyofNeuroscience

@dcm

#MazviitaChirimuuta book
#TheBrainAbstracted povides citations from cool authors in #neurodon #neuroscience #SystemsNeuroscience #PhilosophyOfNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfAI #philosophyofmind

@MatteoCarandini
@NancyKanwisher
@Neurograce
@garymarcus
@michelamassimi
@melaniemitchell
@Gualtiero
@kordinglab