Losing Our Heads
Neuroscience is a modern obsession worth billions. But is it the best way to understand ourselves? December 2016
Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, famously said that minds are simply what brains do. Minsky’s credo has become a truism; it not only expresses our commitment to a scientific understanding of the mind but also captures the familiar idea that a deep theory can only come from a science of the…