RT Book, Section A1 Waxman, Stephen G. SR Print(0) ID 1137636873 T1 Fundamentals of the Nervous System T2 Clinical Neuroanatomy, 28e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071847704 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1137636873 RD 2024/03/29 AB More than any other organ, the nervous system makes human beings special. The human central nervous system (CNS) is the most complex and elegant computing device that exists. It receives and interprets an immense array of sensory information, controls a variety of simple and complex motor behaviors, and engages in deductive and inductive logic. The brain can make complex decisions, think creatively, and feel emotions. It can generalize and possesses an elegant ability to recognize that cannot be reproduced by even advanced computers. The human nervous system, for example, can immediately identify a familiar face regardless of the angle at which it is presented. It can carry out many of these demanding tasks in a nearly simultaneous manner.