We have amassed a huge body of knowledge about the brain. But because that knowledge is purely descriptive, not explanatory, we actually understand very little about how the brain works.
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This was the central idea of Allen Newell's 1973 essay. We keep accumulating new neuropsychological observations -- by the 1000s. While these observations may seem locally interesting, they don't add up to a whole. We're missing a holistic theory. 47 years later, it remains true
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