a history of technology-based analogies and models of nerve and brain function

摘要: This article reviews some of the technological devices and ideas which have been used over years to answer question, how does brain work? It describes early technology-based analogies models nerve fibers, then discusses other based on mechani- cal electrical technologies.There are also short sections cybernetics, telephone exchanges, computers. Although all these flawed extent, this offers a brief argument usefulness analogy abstraction in science.