Design for a brain
by William Ross Ashby · first published 1952
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…Cybernetics - William Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and "The Computer As A Communication Device" - J.C.R. Licklider. http://memex.org/licklider.pdf Design For A Brain - William Ross Ashby. https://archive.org/details/designforbrainor00ashb The Writings of Douglas Engelbart. http://www.dougengelbart.org/library/library.html and if you like maths, don't miss this great…
on “Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?” ↗Zilog Z-80 User's Manual: http://www.zilog.com/appnotes_download.php?FromPage=DirectLi... Design For A Brain - W. Ross Ashby https://archive.org/download/designforbrain00ashb/designforb... Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKay http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf…
on “Ask HN: Reading material for a long trip” ↗"Design for a brain" by W. Ross Ashby (1953) is also worth a look, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846986 > In 1949 Time described it as "the closest thing to a synthetic brain so far designed by man".
on “A Model of a Mind” ↗According to the Wikipedia page on the author [1], "[Ashby's] two books, Design for a Brain and An Introduction to Cybernetics, were landmark works. They introduced exact and logical thinking into the nascent discipline and were highly influential." [1] states that Ashby's work influenced Stafford…
on “An Introduction to Cybernetics (1957) [pdf]” ↗1953 review of "Design for a brain" by W. Ross Ashby, https://www.jstor.org/stable/685995 When a physiologist wants to investigate the working of the nervous system he normally examines samples of this system, dissects them, traces…
on “Review of "Design for a Brain" (2005)” ↗Are you talking about the 2nd edition of "Design for a Brain"? There are embarassingly many cybernetics books this could refer to (particularly from the midcentury)...
on “Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?” ↗Probably not: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5791995M/Design_for_a_brain
on “Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?” ↗