Ema’s Reviews > The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience > Status Update
Ema
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It’s a bit frustrating seeing the world of science go back and forth on the same ideas but anyway I’m really enjoying the text - the author’s footnotes and subjective remarks on individual scientists are very entertaining. It’s taking me a lot of time to digest some things (tbf I’m kinda dumb) but I appreciate direct quotes from the works of scientists mentioned.
— Jan 10, 2021 01:58AM
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Ema
is 14% done
“In front of a small audience of physicians at the Royal College of Surgeons, Aldini placed electrodes on the corpse’s head, causing Forster’s left eye to open and his face to grimace.” Basically Mary Shelley’s Joker origin story 😅
— Jan 08, 2021 03:46PM
Ema
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“Locke [in 1689] briefly put forward two possible explanations for the origin of thought, which he considered to be equally likely. Either God could have created matter such that it was able to think, or he could have fixed onto inert matter some immaterial substance that was thought.“
I can absolutely see him dropping the mic ohhh
— Jan 07, 2021 01:52PM
I can absolutely see him dropping the mic ohhh
