Date: March 31, 2009
"Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology--including, at one point, telephone switchboards."
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Date: March 31, 2009
"Today people talk about brains as if they were a sort of biological computer, with pink mushy 'hardware' and 'software' generated by life experiences."
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Date: March 31, 2009
"Our colleague David Linden has compared the evolutionary history of the brain to the task of building a modern car by adding parts to a 1925 Model T that never stops running."
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Date: March 31, 2009
"As smart as we are, in this sense we are all dim bulbs."
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Date: March 31, 2009
"We use emotions, the brain's steersman, to assign value to our experiences and to future possibilities, often allowing us to evaluate potential outcomes efficiently and rapidly when information is uncertain."
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