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John Brockman

“If sensory recognition worked on the grandmother principle, the number of specific-recognition neurons for all possible combinations of nerve impulses would exceed the number of atoms in the universe.”

John Brockman, This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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