Stefano Rufini Tel
Kandel et al. - FONDAMENTI DELLE NEUROSCIENZE E DEL COMPORTAMENTO - AMBROSIANA Zigmond et al. NEUROSCIENZE COGNITIVE E COMPORTAMENTALI - EDISES Nicholls et al. - DAI NEURONI AL CERVELLO - ZANICHELLI Purves et al. - NEUROSCIENZE - ZANICHELLI Taglietti e Casella - PRINCIPI DI FISIOLOGIA E BIOFISICA DELLA CELLULA - Vol II - La Goliardica
One is obliged to admit that perception and what depends upon it is inexplicable on mechanical principles, that is, by figures and motions. In imagining that there is a machine whose construction would enable it to think, to sense, and to have perception, one could conceive it enlarged while retaining the same proportions, so that one could enter into it, just like into a windmill. Supposing this, one should, when visiting within it, find only parts pushing one another, and never anything by which to explain a perception. — Leibniz, Monadology
« Lavoro molte ore al microscopio. Sono felice d ’ aver trovato una nuova reazione per dimostrare anche agli orbi le strutture dello stroma interstiziale della corteccia cerebrale. Faccio agire il nitrato d ’ argento sui pezzi di cervello induriti in bicromato di potassio. Ho gi à ottenuto risultati assai belli e spero di ottenere di pi ù»
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Phineas Gage
Rejection [of the idea that mental events have no locus] by common sense, for whatever reason, proves nothing. Other fields of science are built on propositions that may seem absurd but in fact are true. (Air is heavy, has weight? Water is made up of two gases? The continents are adrift in the oceans?) Donald O. Heb b, 198