{"title":"Embodiments Of Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the philosophical depths of the 'Embodiments of Mind' series. Explore consciousness, cognition, and the very nature of thought through insightful essays and analyses. A stimulating journey for curious minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"embodiments-of-mind-book-warren-s-mcculloch-9780262529617","title":"Embodiments of Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eEmbodiments 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface by Jerome Y. Lettvin. Warren S. McCulloch was an original thinker, in many respects far ahead of his time. Of all our contemporaries in brain research McCulloch is the most personal, idiosyncratic. he is at the center, the pivot of a whirligig of explosive thinking, wrote a colleague in 1966. \u003ci\u003eEmbodiments of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. In his preface to this timely reissue of McCulloch's work, Jerome Lettvin notes in particular that among the papers are two classics coauthored with Walter Pitts. One applies Boolean algebra to neurons considered as gates; another shows the kind of nervous circuitry that could be used in perceiving universals. These first models are part of the basis of artificial intelligence. McCulloch, who was a doctor, a philosopher, a teacher, a mathematician and a poet, terms his work experimental epistemology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of 21 essays and lectures he pursues a physiological theory of knowledge that touches on philosophy, neurology, and psychology: There is one answer, only one, toward which I've groped for thirty years; to find out how brains work.Chapters range from What is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number, and Why the Mind is in the Head, to What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain (with Jerome Lettvin, Humberto Maturana, and Walter Pitts), Machines that Think and Want, and A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity (with Walter Pitts). \u003ci\u003eEmbodiments of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with a selection of McCulloch's poems and sonnets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727406473489,"sku":"NGR9780262529617","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52665264111889,"sku":"NLS9780262529617","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262529610.jpg?v=1750974254"},{"product_id":"embodiments-of-mind-book-warren-s-mcculloch-9780262631143","title":"Embodiments of Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritings by a thinker--a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a cybernetician, and a poet--whose ideas about mind and brain were far ahead of his time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarren S. McCulloch was an original thinker, in many respects far ahead of his time. McCulloch, who was a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a teacher, a mathematician, and a poet, termed his work experimental epistemology. He said, There is one answer, only one, toward which I've groped for thirty years: to find out how brains work. \u003ci\u003eEmbodiments of Mind, \u003c\/i\u003efirst published more than fifty years ago, teems with intriguing concepts about the mind\/brain that are highly relevant to recent developments in neuroscience and neural networks. It includes two classic papers coauthored with Walter Pitts, one of which applies Boolean algebra to neurons considered as gates, and the other of which shows the kind of nervous circuitry that could be used in perceiving universals. These first models are part of the basis of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters range from What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number, and Why the Mind Is in the Head, to What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain (with Jerome Lettvin, Humberto Maturana, and Walter Pitts), Machines that Think and Want, and A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity (with Walter Pitts). \u003ci\u003eEmbodiments of Mind \u003c\/i\u003econcludes with a selection of McCulloch's poems and sonnets. 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