Mapping the brain won’t unlock all its secrets. That’s a good thing.
There’s a quote attributed to New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford that goes something like this: “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” In other words, some scientists perform experiments to explain how things work, while others don’t test specific hypotheses but instead observe the natural world and take note of what they find. The latter may seem inferior, but don’t…
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