| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 82 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures |
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Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures.
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| Contents |
Part 1 - The computer -- The analog procedure -- The digital procedure -- Logical control -- Mixed numerical procedures -- Characteristics of modern analog machines -- Characteristics of modern digital machines -- Part 2 - The brain -- Simplified description of the function of the neuron -- The nature of the nerve impulse -- Simulation criteria -- The problem of memory within the nervous system -- Digital and analog parts in the nervous systems -- Codes and their role in the control of the functioning of a machine -- The logical structure of the nervous system -- Nature of the nervous system of notations employed : not digital but statistical -- The language of the brain not the language of mathematics. |
| Summary |
"This book represents the view of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. This edition includes a new foreword by two eminent figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness, Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Computers.
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Cybernetics.
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Computers. (OCoLC)fst00872776
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Cybernetics. (OCoLC)fst00885777
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| Added Author |
Churchland, Paul M., 1942-
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Churchland, Patricia Smith.
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| ISBN |
0300084730 paperback |
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