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ACADEMIC
What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain
In this paper, we analyze the activity of single fibers in the optic nerve of a frog. Our method is to find what sort of stimulus causes the largest activity in one nerve fiber and then what is the exciting aspect of that stimulus such that variation... Read More
with HUMBERTO R. MATURANA WARREN S. McCULLOCH WALTER PITTS
ACADEMIC
What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?
This lecture might be called, "In Quest of the Logos" or, more appropriately, perverting St. Bonaventura's famous title, "An Itinerary to Man". Its proper preface is that St. Augustine says that it was a pagan philosopher - a Neoplatonist - who wrote... Read More
ACADEMIC
Cybernetic problems of learning
For historical reasons, we in Neuropsychiatry have found ourselves in a curious predicament that began with modem physics when Galileo correctly excluded mental, that is, formal and final, causes from the explanation of physical events. Descartes, ba... Read More
ACADEMIC
Of I and it
Let us discuss a problem involving the use of words in communication of patients with doctors. I am associated with the Research Laboratory of Electronics (R.L.E.) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The reason why I work there is that it i... Read More
ACADEMIC
Ragnar Rokr
Once upon a time the whole event, rolled in one for us, our universe, began. Small atoms formed and in their coalescence made the stars, fusing their atoms to make larger ones and radiating energy. There is a mainline of their evolution, a way of bec... Read More
ACADEMIC
Finality and form in nervous activity
Empiric philosophers have always maintained that problems in the theory of knowledge and of value must be stated and resolved as questions concerning the anatomy and the physiology of the nervous system. These are inquiries into the a priori forms an... Read More