DEMYSTIFYING THE BRAIN- e Book

Popular media often tends to present a larger than life picture of the brain and tends to mystify the subject by use of excessive hyperbole. The complexity of the brain is used as a bad excuse to justify this mystification. A complex real-world system may look intimidating and incomprehensible only in its details, but could be simple and tractable in its organizational principles. Developments in computational neuroscience over the last three decades have unraveled several fundamental organizational principles of the brain. Illumined by these fundamental principles the immense complexity of the brain seems more comprehensible, less staggering. There is a need for a book that introduces this new view of the brain in terms of its information processing principles, in a manner accessible to the general reader.

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