Comment by Invictus0
2 months ago
To say we've been studying the brain for millennia is an extreme exaggeration. Modern neuroscience is only about 50 years old.
2 months ago
To say we've been studying the brain for millennia is an extreme exaggeration. Modern neuroscience is only about 50 years old.
I hate to "umm, akshually" but apparently we have been studying the brain for thousands of years. I wasn't talking about purely modern neuroscience (which ironically for our topic of emergence, (often till recently/still in most places) treats the brain as the sum of its parts - be them neurons or neurotransmitters).
> The earliest reference to the brain occurs in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written in the 17th century BC.
I was actually thinking of ancient greeks when writing my comment, but I suppose Egyptians have even older records than them.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_neuroscience
None of that counts as studying the brain. It's like saying rubbing sticks together to make fire counts as studying atomic energy. Those early "researchers" were hopelessly far away from even the most tangential understanding of the workings of the brain.
But fundamentally speaking, they were trying to understand the brain, right? IMO that counts as science/study in my books. They understood parts/basics of intracranial pressure so long back.
And if we say it's not science if it's not correct, well, (modern) physics isn't a science then, right? ;) As we haven't unified relativity with quantum mechanics?
I came here to say this :)