Stanislas Dehaene

plastic organ whose learning capacity is so broad that it places no constraints on the scope of human activity.

John Locke, David Hume, and George Berkeley, who claimed that the human brain should be compared to a blank slate that progressively absorbs the imprint of man’s natural and cultural environment through the five senses.

brain’s architecture is similar in all members of the Homo sapiens family, and differs only slightly from that of other primates.