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New Stuff To Be Found
a: Neuroscience ~
b: Victorian physics
What: "Our knowledge of neuroscience is like Victorian physics or even more primitive than that," he says, and that's what makes it enjoyable.
Useful?
Writer: V .S. Ramachandran
LCC: RC
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Date: May 24 2013 2:25 PM
# 3262 Critique Analogy
Many Pieces
a: Neuroscience ~
b: doing a giant jigsaw puzzle
What: "So for me, doing neuroscience is like doing a giant jigsaw puzzle with 30,000 of your closest friends hovering in a Goodyear blimp above this great playing field of the neurosciences, waiting for someone to make a breakthrough that can allow you to contribute again."
Useful?
Writer: Dr. Floyd Bloom
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Date: May 24 2013 2:30 PM
# 3263 Critique Analogy
Is It So?
a: Neuroscience ~
b: studying plumbing to learn about water
What: "Neuroscience is like studying the plumbing of the house in order to learn the nature of water, or following the wiring of a building to understand the nature and origin of electricity."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 24 2013 2:32 PM
# 3264 Critique Analogy
Reductionism Ruj Amok?
a: Neuroscience ~
b: a 3 year old child with a jigsaw puzzle
What: "Modern neuroscience is like a three-year-old child with a jigsaw pu zzle -- it is much better at taking things apart than at putting them back together again." The link is a very good about the limits of study the human nervous system by cutting it into little pieces.
Useful?
Writer: Vikaas Sohal
LCC: RC
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Date: May 24 2013 2:36 PM
# 3265 Critique Analogy
a: Neuroscience ~
b: a gadget-savvy infant Godzilla
What: "Modern Neuroscience is like a gadget-savvy infant Godzilla of Dogma that stomps around an ancient philosophico-existential playground insisting on its reductionistically-naive definitions of what we are." Another shot at the rabid reductionists....
Useful?
Writer: Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D
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Date: May 24 2013 2:39 PM
# 3266 Critique Analogy
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