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This work is extensively documented in my book: Close Up at a Distance: Mapping Technology Politics (New York: Zone Books, 2013) 58–85.
Lawrence K. Altman “Nobel Prize in Medicine Is Awarded to Three Who Discovered Brain’s ‘Inner GPS’,” October 06, 2014, ➝.
May-Britt Moser and Edvard I Moser, “WHERE AM I? WHERE AM I GOING,” Scientific American 314, no. 1 (January 2016): 26–33.
Edward C. Tolman, “Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men,” The Psychological Review 55, no. 4 (1948): 189–208.
Ole Kiehn, Award Ceremony Speech for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014, The Nobel Prize, December 10, 2014, ➝.
Edvard I. Moser and May-Britt Moser, “A Journey Into Entorhinal Cortex,” interview, posted January 25, 2011, by NTNU University, YouTube, ➝.
Moser and Moser, “A Journey Into Entorhinal Cortex.”
Moser and Moser, “A Journey Into Entorhinal Cortex.”
Mo Costandi, “The Brain Takes a Guided Tour of London,” Scientific American, March 21, 2017.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 press release.
Itai Palti and Moshe Bar, “A Manifesto for Conscious Cities: Should Streets Be Sensitive to Our Mental Needs?” The Guardian, August 28, 2015, ➝.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 press release.
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For a good explanation of neural networks, see Fangfang Lee, “What is a Neural Network?” IBM, September 10, 2025, ➝.
Beth Coleman, Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds (Berlin: K. Verlag, 2023).

