"Identifying those building blocks, we believe, could be the Rosetta stone that unlocks the brain."
— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)
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Date
June 27, 2015
Metaphor
"Identifying those building blocks, we believe, could be the Rosetta stone that unlocks the brain."
Metaphor in Context
Although my colleagues and I don't literally think that the brain is a field programmable gate array, our suggestion is that the brain might similarly consist of highly orchestrated sets of fundamental building blocks, such as "computational primitives" for constructing sequences, retrieving information from memory, and routing information between different locations in the brain. Identifying those building blocks, we believe, could be the Rosetta stone that unlocks the brain.
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Reading
Citation
Gary Marcus, "Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer," The New York Times (June 27, 2015). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
07/06/2015
