"Freud was not alone in imagining the nerves as an elaborate network resembling wiring diagrams used to design and describe electric circuits at the end of the nineteenth century.16

Two types of neurons

"permeable neurons which “after each passage of excitation are in the same state as before,” and, more crucially, impermeable neurons which are loaded with resistance, are altered by the passage of energy, and are therefore able to retain traces of the passage.

now welcomes neuroscience’s elimination of signification: critical theory with its reliance on language has assumed a deeply cognitivist and, Bryson adds, inherently clerical stance which stands to be corrected as neuroscience unearths the silent intelligence lodged in the body and brings the “creatural life of the body and of embodied experience”