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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11815292.
- catalog contributor b11815293.
- catalog contributor b11815294.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 82 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300084730 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "003.5 21".
- catalog subject "Computers.".
- catalog subject "Cybernetics.".
- catalog subject "QA76 .V6 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The computer and the brain / John von Neumann ; with a foreword by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland.".
- catalog type "text".