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Design for a Brain
W. Ross Ashby
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Description for Design for a Brain
Paperback. Series: Science Paperbacks. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
THE book is not a treatise on aIl cerebral mechanisms but a pro- poscd solution of a specific problem: the origin of the nervous system's unique ability to produce adaptive behaviour. The work has as basis the fact that the nervous system behaves adap- tively and the hypothesis that it is essentiaIly mechanistic; it proceeds on the assumption that these two data are not irrecon- cilable. It attempts to deduce from the observed facts what sort of a mechanism it must be that behaves so differently from any machinc made so far. Other proposed solutions have usuaIly left open the ... Read more
THE book is not a treatise on aIl cerebral mechanisms but a pro- poscd solution of a specific problem: the origin of the nervous system's unique ability to produce adaptive behaviour. The work has as basis the fact that the nervous system behaves adap- tively and the hypothesis that it is essentiaIly mechanistic; it proceeds on the assumption that these two data are not irrecon- cilable. It attempts to deduce from the observed facts what sort of a mechanism it must be that behaves so differently from any machinc made so far. Other proposed solutions have usuaIly left open the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1966
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
Series
Science Paperbacks
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780412200908
SKU
V9780412200908
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99-15
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