"The small and cheerful book at hand, by a well-known researcher on the brain from Tubingen, has exploited the virtues of the style with unprecedented consistency, originality and aptness. His thought experiments are not analytic efforts to extract what principles lie behind an imagined observation but are instead synthetic constructions. They are little toys of the mind, devised out of simple if fictional components, entirely functionally described... [A] crisp, cogent book full of intellectual delights." Philip Morrison , Scientific American
Valentino Braitenberg was a director of the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and Honorary Professor of Information Science at the University of T bingen, Germany.
The small and cheerful book at hand, by a well-known researcher on
the brain from Tübingen, has exploited the virtues of the style
with unprecedented consistency, originality and aptness. His
thought experiments are not analytic efforts to extract what
principles lie behind an imagined observation but are instead
synthetic constructions. They are little toys of the mind, devised
out of simple if fictional components, entirely functionally
described...[A] crisp, cogent book full of intellectual
delights.
*Scientific American*
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