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An Internet in Your Head

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Using the binary code of a computer is too simplistic to represent a human brain. One example is that the synapses connect with neurons and axons in a variety of patterns, and their connections can differ as well.

We don't understand why there is such differentiation, or how it works, but we know that it does work, and it does marvelous things. Far beyond what we can tell a computer to do--still.

Although the "metaphor or proto-theory" helped some people grasp that there is a certain level of complexity, the example of a computer far outlived its usefulness to the point of misinformation. It limits our perception of how our brains function.

Although the brain performs calculations, it's also a communications system, and this is where comparing a brain to the internet shows its usefulness and practicality. Showing that our brains are more "flexible and aware" than we may suppose.

This book is not light reading. However, it is written in clear non-jargon English with enough explanation to support the author's ideas. I found it fascinating. And I agree with his argument and findings. It is time to stop restricting our views by hugging an outdated (ill-fitting) view of our most important organ, if we want to understand it better.

5/5 Stars

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the free preview of this timely book!

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Professional account on the discoveries and hypotheses in the modern-day neuroscientific research with a brief "for dummies" account on the history and nature of modern Internet technology. The text doesn't use too technical language, it is easy to read even for a total newbie. I particularly enjoyed the nice illustrations, some explanatory, some historical. There are also a few additional pearls in the endnotes. One thing that I would ask the author is the difference between the Internet as a non-autonomous phenomenon (without users Internet is dead) and the brain, which is autonomous. Brain, from a certain point of life, doesn't need any people for inserting data or maintaining it (if we consider the rest of the body as an integral part of the brain) and still, it works. Internet doesn't.

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An Internet In Your Head is a wonderful book that gave many good insights on the internet and its relationship to the meat in our head, would recommend everyone to give this a shot.

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