<div id="pf1" class="pf w0 h0" data-page-no="1"><div class="pc pc1 w0 h0"><img class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" src="https://files.passeidireto.com/87fdf84a-f502-43c2-b9d9-80d297b03565/bg1.png"></div><div class="pi" data-data='{"ctm":[1.000000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000,0.000000,0.000000]}'></div></div> <div id="pf2" class="pf w0 h0" data-page-no="2"><div class="pc pc2 w0 h0"><img class="bi x0 y1 w0 h1" alt="" src="https://files.passeidireto.com/87fdf84a-f502-43c2-b9d9-80d297b03565/bg2.png"><div class="t m0 x1 h2 y2 ff1 fs0 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0">THE HUMAN BRAIN</div><div class="t m0 x1 h3 y3 ff2 fs1 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws1">An Introduction to Its Functional Anatomy</div><div class="t m0 x1 h4 y4 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">Reproduction of a woodcut in <span class="ff4">De Homine</span>, 1662, by René Descartes, who thought that the pineal gland was </div><div class="t m0 x1 h4 y5 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">the seat of the soul, monitoring the movement of \u201canimal spirits\u201d in sensory nerves and controlling the </div><div class="t m0 x1 h4 y6 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">movement of animal spirits through motor nerves.</div><div class="t m0 x1 h4 y7 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws3">Cover image: An axial slice of a whole human brain, cut by the author\u2019s brother Jack about 30 years ago at the </div><div class="t m0 x1 h4 y8 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">University of Colorado Medical School and stained by Pam Eller, using a phenol/copper sulfate technique.</div><div class="t m0 x2 h5 y9 ff5 fs3 fc0 sc0 ls0">A</div><div class="t m0 x2 h5 ya ff5 fs3 fc0 sc0 ls0">B</div><div class="t m0 x2 h5 yb ff5 fs3 fc0 sc0 ls0">C</div></div><div class="pi" data-data='{"ctm":[1.000000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000,0.000000,0.000000]}'></div></div> <div id="pf3" class="pf w0 h0" data-page-no="3"><div class="pc pc3 w0 h0"><img loading="lazy" class="bi x0 y1 w1 h6" alt="" src="https://files.passeidireto.com/87fdf84a-f502-43c2-b9d9-80d297b03565/bg3.png"><div class="t m0 x3 h7 yc ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">The brain, and the brain alone, is the source of our pleasures, joys, laughter, and </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 yd ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">amusement, as well as our sorrow, pain, grief, and tears. It is especially the organ we use </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 ye ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">to think and learn, see and hear, to distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 yf ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">the good, and the pleasant from the unpleasant. The brain is also the seat of madness </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y10 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">and delirium, of the fears and terrors that assail us by night or by day, of sleeplessness, </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y11 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">awkward mistakes, and thoughts that will not come, of pointless anxieties, forgetfulness, </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y12 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">and eccentricities.</div><div class="t m0 x4 h4 y13 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">Hippocrates, ca. 400 BC</div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y14 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">The human mind can be described as a slow-clockrate modi\ufb01<span class="_0 blank"></span> <span class="_1 blank"> </span>ed-digital machine with </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y15 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">multiple distinguishable parallel processing, all working in salt water.</div><div class="t m0 x4 h4 y16 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">Philip Morrison: The mind of the machine, <span class="ff4">Technology Review </span>75:17, 1973</div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y17 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">One of the dif\ufb01<span class="_0 blank"></span> <span class="_1 blank"> </span>culties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a </div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y18 ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">lump of porridge.</div><div class="t m0 x4 h4 y19 ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">R.L. Gregory: <span class="ff4">Eye and brain: the psychology of seeing, </span>New York, 1966, McGraw-Hill</div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y1a ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">Were I to await perfection,</div><div class="t m0 x3 h7 y1b ff3 fs4 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws6">My book would never be \ufb01<span class="_0 blank"></span><span class="ws7"> nished.</span></div><div class="t m0 x4 h8 y1c ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">Tai T\u2019ung, 13<span class="fs5 ws5 v1">th</span> century Chinese scholar:</div><div class="t m0 x4 h4 y1d ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">The six scripts: principles of Chinese writing.</div><div class="t m0 x4 h4 y1e ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">Quoted in Edmunds LN Jr: <span class="ff4">Cellular and molecular bases of biological clocks,</span></div><div class="t m0 x4 h4 y1f ff3 fs2 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws2">Sixth Edition, New York, 1988, Springer-Verlag</div></div><div class="pi" data-data='{"ctm":[1.000000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000,0.000000,0.000000]}'></div></div>
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