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The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer--it is a communication system, like the internet. Both are networks whose power comes from their flexibility and reliability. The brain and the internet both must route signals throughout their systems, requiring protocols to direct messages from just about any point to any other. But we do not yet understand how the brain manages the dynamic flow of information across its entire network. The internet metaphor can help neuroscience unravel the brain's routing mechanisms by focusing attention on shared design principles and communication strategies that emerge from parallel challenges. Highlighting similarities between brain connectivity and the architecture of the internet can open new avenues of research and help unlock the brain's deepest secrets.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
1. The Internet-Brain and the Computer-Brain
2. Metaphors for the Brain
3. What We Don’t Know About Brains
4. From Connectomics to Dynomics
5. How the Internet Works
6. The Internet Metaphor: First Steps to a New Theory of the Brain
7. Critique of the Internet Metaphor
8. The Internet Metaphor in Action: Emerging Models and New Technologies
9. The Internet Metaphor, AI, and Us
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Daniel Graham is associate professor of psychology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Zusammenfassung
The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer—it is a communication system, like the internet.
Zusatztext
Brain function cannot be fully understood without considering how neurons and brain regions connect and communicate. What are the principles that govern how rich and dynamic patterns of network communication organize and support mind and cognition? This book offers a truly enjoyable and accessible account of this important topic, as well as a fresh and thought-provoking perspective that bridges brain science and modern communication technology.
