The Computer and the Brain
This book represents the views 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...
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This book represents the views 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300084733 (0300084730)
Publish date: July 11th 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Computer Science,
Programming,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Biology,
Philosophy,
Neuroscience,
Mathematics,
Brain