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Embodiments of mind

Addressed to dissimilar groups of scientists, engineers, philosophers, and laymen, this volume offers selected writings of a scientist on how brains work in terms of the circuit action of the brain
Print Book, English, [©1965]
M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., [©1965]
Essay
xx, 402 pages illustrations
9780262631143, 9780262630306, 0262631148, 0262630303
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Introduction / Seymour Papert
What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number? / Warren S. McCulloch
A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity / Warren S. McCulloch and Walter H. Pitts
A heterarchy of values determined by the topology of nervous nets / Warren S. McCulloch
How we know universals, the perception of auditory and visual forms / Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch
Modes of functional organization of the cerebral cortex / Warren S. McCulloch
Why the mind is in the head / Warren S. McCulloch
Through the den of the metaphysician / Warren S. McCulloch
"Mysterium iniquitatis" of sinful man aspiring into the place of God / Warren S. McCulloch
Effects of strychnine with special reference to spinal afferent fibres / P.D. Wall, W.S. McCulloch, J.Y. Lettvin, and W.H. Pitts
Reflex inhibition by dorsal root interaction / R. Howland, J.Y. Lettvin, W.S. McCulloch, W. Pitts, and P.D. Wall
Toward some circuitry of ethical robots or an observational science of the genesis of social evaluation in the mind-like behavior of artifacts / W.S. McCulloch
Agatha Tyche, of nervous nets, the lucky reckoners / W.S. McCulloch
Where is fancy bred? / Warren S. McCulloch
What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain / J.Y. Lettvin, H.R. Maturana, W.S. McCulloch, and W.H. Pitts
Finality and form / Warren S. McCulloch
The past of a delusion / Warren S. McCulloch
Machines that think and want / Warren S. McCulloch
The natural fit / Warren S. McCulloch
A historical introduction to the postulational foundations of experimental epistemology / Warren S. McCulloch
Physiological processes underlying psychoneuroses / Warren S. McCulloch
"What's in the brain that ink may character?" / Warren S. McCulloch