No one person, lab, or field understands the brain or the mind. But with 30,000 neuroscientists attending the Society for Neuroscience's annual conference, you get a feel for how incredibly deeply we want to understand it.Seth S. Horowitz, The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), ch. 11
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
We want to understand the brain and the mind
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