{"product_id":"embodiments-of-mind-paperback-by-warren-s-mcculloch-foreword-by-michael-a-arbib-foreword-by-jerome-y-lettvin-and-seymour-a-papert","title":"Embodiments of Mind Paperback by Warren S. McCulloch; foreword by Michael A. Arbib; foreword by Jerome Y. Lettvin and Seymour A. 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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\n\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. This reissued edition offers a new foreword and a biographical essay by McCulloch's one-time research assistant, the neuroscientist and computer scientist Michael Arbib.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eWarren S. McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician, known for his work on the foundation for certain brain theories and his contribution to the cybernetics movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Arbib has played a leading role at the interface of neuroscience and computer science ever since his first book, \u003ci\u003eBrains, Machines, and Mathematics.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom Neuron to Cognition \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a worthy pedagogical sequel to his widely acclaimed\u003ci\u003e Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. \u003c\/i\u003eAfter thirty years at University of Southern California he is now pursuing interests in “how the brain got language” and “neuroscience for architecture” in San Diego.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe late Seymour A. 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