The Computer and the brain : perspectives on human and artificial intelligence
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The Computer and the brain : perspectives on human and artificial intelligence
North-Holland , Distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1989
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
This collection of interdisciplinary analyses addresses the issue of the language of the brain. The contributors include computer scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, linguists, and historians. The resulting collection reflects the state of knowledge more than a generation after John von Neumann entitled his tantalizing and provocative lectures The Computer and the Brain. John von Neumann was one of the first to address the highly controversial issue of appropriate models to use in discussing cognitive science. The issue he raised most pointedly, and one that is still hotly debated, is the language of the brain. In his Silliman lectures he questioned the validity of using the computer as an interpretive model for human thought, asserting that the language of the brain is not mathematical. Later in the same lecture series, however, he attributes a statistical pattern to the brain. This paradoxical stance of von Neumann's is representative of the rapidly shifting nature of cognitive science, and of the study of the nature of language.
Table of Contents
Historical Perspective. Binary Systems, Ratios and Esthetic Judgments in the Renaissance (S.K. Heninger). Artificial Intelligence and the Western Mind (J. Haugeland). The Brain and the Computer (R.P. Multhauf). Synapses or Chips. ``The Computer and the Brain'' Revisited (T.J. Sejnowski). Behavior as a Trajectory through a Field of Attractors (P.R. Killeen). Computation in the Brain: The Organization of the Hippocampal Formation in Space and Time (L. Nadel). Brain-Style Computation: Mental Processes Emerge from Interactions among Neuron-Like Elements (D.E. Rumelhart). Cognitive Science and Technology. VLSI Implementations of Neural Systems (L.A. Akers, D.K. Ferry, R.O. Grondin). Electronic Neural Network Chips (L.D. Jackel et al.). Language and Computer Science. Languages of the Computational Mind (R. Jackendoff). On Primary and Secondary Language (H. Schnelle). Linguistics, Learnability, and Computation (W. Wilkins). John von Neumann's Contribution to Cognitive Science. John von Neumann (J.R. Brink, C.R. Haden). John von Neumann: Formative Years (N. Vonneuman). The von Neumann - Ortvay Connection (D. Nagy, P. Horvath, F. Nagy). John von Neumann's Contributions to Computing and Computer Science (W. Aspray). Interviews with Edward Teller and Eugen P. Wigner (J.R. Brink, C.R. Haden, eds.).
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