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Brains and Machines

Doubt and Certainty in Science

A Biologist's Reflections on the Brain. By Prof. J. Z. Young. (The B.B.C. Reith Lectures, 1950.) Pp. viii + 168 + 8 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1951.) 7s. 6d. net.

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ZUCKERMAN, S. Brains and Machines. Nature 168, 1095–1096 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1681095a0

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