“Here we will argue, however, that detailed examination of brain parts or their selective perturbation is not sufficient to understand how the brain generates behavior (Figure 1). One reason is that we have no prior…

“Sontag was, at that time, on a crusade against the military metaphor that pervades medicine. Her initial wrath was centered on the “War on Cancer,” of which she was a part, having been diagnosed with (and recovered from) the disease herself. But she felt the military mindset…