Michael A. Arbib Michael A. Arbib: The thrust of Michael Arbib's work is expressed in the title of his first book, Brains, Machines and Mathematics (McGraw-Hill, 1964). The brain is not a computer in the current technological sense, but he has based his career on the argument that we can learn much about machines from studying brains, and much about brains from studying machines. By mcswellin Linguistics > Neurolinguisticswith arbiblanguagemirrorneurons