Interview with Peter Sterling, author of Principles of Neural Design and What Is Health?
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Anim Cogn
November 2023
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
Anim Cogn
November 2023
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
In Principles of Neural Design (2015, MIT Press), inspired by Charles Darwin, Sterling and Laughlin undertook the unfashionable task of distilling principles from facts in the technique-driven, data-saturated domain of neuroscience. Their starting point for deriving the organizing principles of brains are two brainless single-celled organisms, Escherichia coli and Paramecium, and the 302-neuron brain of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The book is an exemplar in how to connect the dots between simpler and (much) more complex organisms in a particular area.
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June 2021
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 24 High Point Drive, Amherst, MA 00102, USA, and Finca Tangara, Palmira Abajo, Chiriqui Province, Panamá. Electronic address:
Peter Sterling expands upon his recent Q & A article by discussing his participation in the Freedom Rides and the reasons for his involvement in the civil rights movement.
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