Spider-Girl

human understanding – from perception to the origin of language – redefined man as a bundle of nerve-ends and the brain as a machine which processed whatever the senses fed into it. In one of his expressive images, Diderot likened the brain to the spider which processes information supplied by activity at the extremities of its web. If the human body, like the cosmos, was a machine, then so was the mind. Determinism Initial reactions were positive. Human nature could be trained to prefer good