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The Reith Lectures: John Zachary Young - Doubt and Certainty in Science: Brains as Machines

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John Zachary Young - Doubt and Certainty in Science

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J Z Young gives an overview of some recent discoveries about nerve and brain activity.

J Z Young gives an overview of some of the new ideas that scientists have been developing over the last decades to describe recent discoveries about nerves and brains.

The English zoologist and neurophysiologist John Zachary Young explores the function of the brain, the way it facilitates communication between human beings, and the current scientific methods used to further our understanding of its capacity, in his Reith lecture series entitled 'Doubt and Certainty in Science'.

In his second lecture, entitled 'Brains as Machines', J Z Young gives an overview of some of the new ideas that scientists have been developing over the last decades to describe recent discoveries about nerves and brains.

The Reith Lectures: John Zachary Young - Doubt and Certainty in Science

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Neurophysiologist J Z Young examines the scientific methods used to understand the brain.

English zoologist and neurophysiologist John Zachary Young explores the function of the brain, and the current scientific methods used to increase our understanding of it.

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