Analogy or identity: brain and machine at the Macy conferences on cybernetics

Authors:
James M. Nyce
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
ACM SIGBIO Newsletter - Special edition on biologically motivated computing
Year:
1992

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Abstract

Of importance for cybernetics was its setting in the flesh...For me it proved that brains do not secrete thought as the liver secretes bile, but that they compute thoughts the way computing machines calculate numbers. Warren McCulloch 1974:10