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We must ask big brain questions, says neuroscientist

By Clare Wilson

26 October 2011

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You and your team have drawn up a list of . Why did you do it?
We’re following in the tracks of , the German mathematician who in 1900 drew up what he thought were the . Hilbert’s work arguably led to the development of computing. I daren’t hope that anything like that might happen [from our work], but we would like something spectacular to come…

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