Before revision: The enchanted loom is a famous metaphor for the brain invented by the pioneering neuroscientist Charles S. Sherrington in a passage from his 1942 book Man on his nature, in which he poetically describes his conception of what happens in the cerebral cortex during arousal from sleep: The "loom" he refers to was undoubtedly meant to be a Jacquard loom, used for weaving fabric into complex patterns.
After revision: humanThe enchanted loom is a famous metaphor for the brain invented by the pioneering neuroscientist Charles S. Sherrington in a passage from his 1942 book Man on his nature, in which he poetically describes his conception of what happens in the cerebral cortex during arousal from sleep: The "loom" he refers to was undoubtedly meant to be a Jacquard loom, used for weaving fabric into complex patterns.