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I'm reading Dune and I just bought a couple of neuroscience and math books. Maybe I'll even have time to read them!

• ktta 5y ago
  What neuroscience books did you purchase?
  • dunefox 5y ago
    Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, An Introductory Course in Computational Neuroscience, and Principles of Neural Design - all bought used for an okay price. Not exactly very theoretical books, but the topic fascinated me recently and I have to get started somewhere. Recommendations always welcome. Edit: I even have another half a dozen of them in my cart, but I can't keep buying books...
• akomtu 5y ago
  Dune is pretty good, actually. It's an artistic allegory on "the path" (as the author calls it). Dune's bene gessiret looks like an allegory on one of the schools whetr candidates who come to the exam (gom jabbar in dune) unprepared, die. The name itself, bene gessiret, the Dune's author must've taken from "binah tipereteth" which means something like "intuition and will". Without at least some familiarity with occult symbolism, it will be difficult to appreacite Dune.
  • math_denial 5y ago
    "Bene gesserit" is from latin "quamdiu se bene gesserit" = "until it will behave well". It come from "bene gero" = "I behave well".