The Future of the Brain Quotes

“The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational.”
― Gary Marcus, The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

“One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.”
― Gary Marcus, The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

“There are, of course, many reasons to think that brains operate mostly in parallel. Individual neurons are too slow to allow brains to operate in strict serial von Neumann fashion, and ample data suggest that in any given laboratory task (and by extension, any real-world situation) many different parts of the brain are engaged simultaneously.”
― Gary Marcus, The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

“To mention a colorful example, the nineteenth-century German scientist Karl Vogt once wrote that “thoughts stand in the same relation to the brain as gall does to the liver or urine to the kidneys.” When he expressed this idea in public, a philosopher interjected that the longer one listens to Professor Vogt, the more one tends to believe him. Clearly, more sophisticated ideas and models are in demand.”
― Gary Marcus, The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists