Embodiments of Mind

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Warren S. McCulloch Michael A. Arbib (University Professor, University of Southern California)

Embodiments of Mind

Name: Embodiments of Mind
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Warren S. McCulloch, Michael A. Arbib (University Professor, University of Southern California), Jerome Y. Lettvin , Seymour A. Papert

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English

MIT Press
22 October 2016

Cybernetics & systems theory; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Neurosciences

Series: Embodiments of Mind

Writings by a thinker-a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a cybernetician, and a poet-whose ideas about mind and brain were far ahead of his time.

Warren S. McCulloch was an original thinker, in many respects far ahead of his time. McCulloch, who was a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a teacher, a mathematician, and a poet, termed his work ""experimental epistemology."" He said, ""There is one answer, only one, toward which I've groped for thirty years- to find out how brains work."" Embodiments of Mind, first published more than fifty years ago, teems with intriguing concepts about the mind/brain that are highly relevant to recent developments in neuroscience and neural networks. It includes two classic papers coauthored with Walter Pitts, one of which applies Boolean algebra to neurons considered as gates, and the other of which shows the kind of nervous circuitry that could be used in perceiving universals. These first models are part of the basis of artificial intelligence.

Chapters range from ""What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number,"" and ""Why the Mind Is in the Head,"" to ""What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain"" (with Jerome Lettvin, Humberto Maturana, and Walter Pitts), ""Machines that Think and Want,"" and ""A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity"" (with Walter Pitts). Embodiments of Mind concludes with a selection of McCulloch's poems and sonnets. This reissued edition offers a new foreword and a biographical essay by McCulloch's one-time research assistant, the neuroscientist and computer scientist Michael Arbib.

By: Warren S. McCulloch
Foreword by: Michael A. Arbib (University Professor University of Southern California), Jerome Y. Lettvin
Introduction by: Seymour A. Papert
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780262529617
ISBN 10: 0262529610
Series: Embodiments of Mind
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 22 October 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Warren S. McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician, known for his work on the foundation for certain brain theories and his contribution to the cybernetics movement. Michael Arbib has played a leading role at the interface of neuroscience and computer science ever since his first book, Brains, Machines, and Mathematics. From Neuron to Cognition provides a worthy pedagogical sequel to his widely acclaimed Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. After thirty years at University of Southern California he is now pursuing interests in ""how the brain got language"" and ""neuroscience for architecture"" in San Diego. The late Seymour A. Papert was a Professor in MIT's AI Lab (1960-1980s) and MIT's Media Lab (1985-2000) and the author of Mindstorms- Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas.