Abstract
The human brain is able to form images of the complex world surrounding us, so it might seem obvious that the brain itself has to be a complex object. However, it is not necessarily so. We have seen that complex behavior can arise from models with a simple architecture through a process of self-organization. Perhaps the brain is also a fairly simple organ.
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Bak, P. (1996). The Brain. In: How Nature Works. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5426-1_10
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