![]() In the seventeenth century, the French philosopher René Descartes claimed that the human brain works like a machine.ĭescartes believed that the nerves were filled with what he called “animal spirits” that carried motor and sensory information to the ventricles of the brain in a similar way to how hydraulic fluid works in a machine. More than two millennia ago Aristotle thought that the brain was a kind of radiator whose function was to cool the heart, which was the true organ of thought and emotions. ![]() Over the years the brain has been likened to various technological devices.
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