The incomprehensibility of the human brain the most general assumption made in vision research (and neuroscience in general) is that the visual processing can be understood by those who study it. this implies that the functions of part of the human brain are comprehensible by a human brain. I discuss seven distinct reasons why the brain can never be fully understood, and their applicability to the various levels of [Book Review]

In A. Gorea (ed.), Representations of Vision. Cambridge University Press. pp. 251 (1991)
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