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We have already accustomed ourselves to the idea that the study of a brain as an information processing device is more comparable to reading a text than to the causal analysis of an experiment in physics.
Out of metaphysical tits drivel the bits? Is it a finger without a hand that writes in the sand of my brain? A hand without an arm, an arm without a brain, or a brain without a soul?
(from a German popular song)
… things arise and perish only by composition and separation, and there is no other arising and perishing, but they abide eternal.
Anaxagoras [3.1]
Through visible things we see the invisible ones.
Anaxagoras [3.1]
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Braitenberg, V. (1977). Information. In: On the Texture of Brains. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87702-5_3
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