The Idea of the Brain : A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 - Professor Matthew Cobb Paperback / softback The Great Gatsby

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The Idea of the Brain : A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 - Professor Matthew Cobb Paperback / softback The Great GatsbyShortlisted 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