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Embodiments of Mind, first published more than two decades ago, teems with intriguing concepts about the mind/brain that are highly relevant to current developments in neuroscience and neural networks.
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"This collection...will delight those who like being stimulated, goaded, even infuriated into developing new ideas... The book also makes available those earlier, and now classic, articles that are sometimes almost inaccessible."--"Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases"
."..teasing, provocative, oracular, stimulating, oblique..."--"Scientific American"
"We recommend it to all [those] who wish to be reassured that this age can produce scientific minds in the tradition of Bacon, Mill, Lester, and others of similar stature."--"American Association for Social Psychiatry"
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."..teasing, provocative, oracular, stimulating, oblique..."--"Scientific American"
"We recommend it to all [those] who wish to be reassured that this age can produce scientific minds in the tradition of Bacon, Mill, Lester, and others of similar stature."--"American Association for Social Psychiatry"
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. 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.
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date1965
- ISBN 10 0262130181
- ISBN 13 9780262130189
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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Embodiments of Mind
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge, MA, US
(1975)
ISBN 10: 0262130181
ISBN 13: 9780262130189
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. xx, 410pp, with occasional in-text diagrams. Laminated light card covers, white and grey titles and black and white picture on front, white and grey titles on spine. 8vo. Lender has re-bound volume in medium weight card. Lightly rubbed spine ends, small tear in spine cover towards the heel, likely from sticky tape removal as residue on front to rear cover, lender's shelf number label on spine. Board edges and corners lightly rubbed. Top and fore edges of text block just starting to fox. Lender's stamps, labels and markings on endpapers and copyright page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. From Preface: 'presents our attempt to found a physiological theory of knowledge. It is in the interest of science to expose the formation of hypotheses to criticism of fellow scientists in the hope of experimental contradiction'. Seller Inventory # 021478
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