from eye to brain: gilles deleuze: refiguring the subject in film theory

patricia pisters dissertation Amsterdam 1998 p29 Clearly, taking the rhizome as an image of the brain is related to new developments in neurobiology. Also in this scientific domain the old tree-like model of the 'homunculus', the idea that the brain is centrally conducted by a "little man" in our head, has been replaced by the understanding of the brain as a complex network in which different areas have different tasks, and in which many connections can be made in probable but never exactly predictable ways. ---see Douglas Hofstader, Godel, Esher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. New York, Basic books 1979.