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Brain is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. It describes how a future generation of computers will work hard-wired to human brains. Plot The story starts with a girl Katherine Collins going to a private clinic for a pap smear but these people anesthetize her and steal her brain for a secret military project. She is placed in a vat of liquid and her brain is connected to a computer. The same thing happens to other patients too. The protagonist Dr. Martin Philips, a doctor in neuroradiology at the NYC medical center is involved in creating a self-diagnostic x-ray machine, along with William Michaels, who is a researcher graduating from MIT and also head of the department of artificial intelligence. Dr. Philips's girlfriend and colleague Dr. Denise Sanger (28 years old) is also involved in the same hospital. Philips and Sanger both find a secret conspiracy in the hospital to steal patients' brains without their consent. They uncover details and find that though they'd suspected Mannerheim, the prima donna neurosurgeon, the real villain is the soft-spoken AI researcher Michaels and his military backers. Dr. Philips blows the whistle and seeks political asylum in Sweden. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain.”
— Paul Churchland, in A Neurocomputational Perspective (1989).
“It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.”
— Richard Dawkins, in The Economist, Vol. 328 (1993).
“In the Arena of Brains no more salutary thing can befall a man than to meet his match. The discipline is stern, but not of the most adamant.”
— Norman Gale, A June Romance (Rugby: George E. Over, 1894), p. 66
“If we don't have good models to study the human brain, the potential for being able to address so much human suffering, disease, things that are very difficult to model in animals, we'll never reach.”
— Alysson Muotri as qtd. in “After Months In A Dish, Lab-Grown Minibrains Start Making 'Brain Waves'”, by Jon Hamilton, Shots Health News From NPR, (August 29, 2019).
“The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.”
— Charles Scott Sherrington, as quoted in the article The Human Brain—Three Pounds of Mystery, in The Watchtower magazine (15 July 1978).
“The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.”
— James D. Watson, Watchtower Online Library.

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Brain is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. It describes how a future generation of computers will work hard-wired to human brains.

Overview

Brain is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. It describes how a future generation of computers will work hard-wired to human brains. Plot The story starts with a girl Katherine Collins going to a private clinic for a pap smear but these people anesthetize her and steal her brain for a secret military project. She is placed in a vat of liquid and her brain is connected to a computer. The same thing happens to other patients too. The protagonist Dr. Martin Philips, a doctor in neuroradiology at the NYC medical center is involved in creating a self-diagnostic x-ray machine, along with William Michaels, who is a researcher graduating from MIT and also head of the department of artificial intelligence. Dr. Philips's girlfriend and colleague Dr. Denise Sanger (28 years old) is also involved in the same hospital. Philips and Sanger both find a secret conspiracy in the hospital to steal patients' brains without their consent. They uncover details and find that though they'd suspected Mannerheim, the prima donna neurosurgeon, the real villain is the soft-spoken AI researcher Michaels and his military backers. Dr. Philips blows the whistle and seeks political asylum in Sweden. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Brain: organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all · German record label · Fictional supervillain in DC Comics · family name

Notable quotes

“We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain.”
— Paul Churchland, in A Neurocomputational Perspective (1989).
“It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.”
— Richard Dawkins, in The Economist, Vol. 328 (1993).
“In the Arena of Brains no more salutary thing can befall a man than to meet his match. The discipline is stern, but not of the most adamant.”
— Norman Gale, A June Romance (Rugby: George E. Over, 1894), p. 66
“If we don't have good models to study the human brain, the potential for being able to address so much human suffering, disease, things that are very difficult to model in animals, we'll never reach.”
— Alysson Muotri as qtd. in “After Months In A Dish, Lab-Grown Minibrains Start Making 'Brain Waves'”, by Jon Hamilton, Shots Health News From NPR, (August 29, 2019).
“The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.”
— Charles Scott Sherrington, as quoted in the article The Human Brain—Three Pounds of Mystery, in The Watchtower magazine (15 July 1978).
“The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.”
— James D. Watson, Watchtower Online Library.