Internet in Your Head - A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Daniel Graham is associate professor of psychology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Summary

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.

Additional text

The brain and the internet both require flexibility for reliably routing information across growing and adapting networks. Graham’s accessible and scholarly book, which also considers mail and telephone networks, develops plausible similarities for how brains and internets solve routing problems.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Graham, Graham Daniel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780231196055
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19605-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General