{"product_id":"embodiments-of-mind-9780262631143","title":"Embodiments of Mind","description":"\u003cp\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. Preface 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. 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. In his preface to this timely reissue of McCullochs 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.\" In 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 Ive 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 Frogs Eye Tells the Frogs 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). Embodiments of Mind concludes with a selection of McCullochs poems and sonnets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45921935917109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262631148","price":97.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262631143.jpg?v=1787607821","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/embodiments-of-mind-9780262631143","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}