reading an article about how the brain is "like a central computer" and how the spinal cord "is the highway for communication" and it makes me wonder what analogies people might have used before computers and highways
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anatomy of the brain by thomas willis, published 1664
first railroad: 1827
first telephone: 1849
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in the 15th century, Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi described the brain's structure as onion-like
(wait, did he even consider himself italian. or was he like, "I am from Jacopo from Carpi". ugh let's interrogate italian identity another time)
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you wanna know what ADHD is like
so I'm writing this book called Introspect
as a digression I'm writing "Notes on the body", because the body and mind are linked
so I'm researching the brain, hence this thread
and now I also need to understand the history of italian identity
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this sounds completely normal and correct to me uh oh
like it's legitimately great in the sense that, while in the short run it means you don't get anything done that you say you want to do, for all you know, it's your blogpost on italian identity that ends up making real waves
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