Episode
John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain
COMPLEXITY · Nov 11, 2022 · 51 min
The brain is arguably one of the most complex objects known to science. How best to understand it? That is a trick question: brains are organized at many levels and attempts to grasp them all through one approach — be it micro, macro, anatomical, behavioral — are destined to leave out crucial insights. What more, thinking “vertically” across scales, one might miss important angles from another…