
History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 10, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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Psychiatry, Psychology, and So On.
In 19 forty three, sir warren mc cullock and walter pitt's wrote a paper about what might be going on with all these sort of connections and wire like things in brains. They had known that nerves were fundamentally an electrical kind of thing. And for example, claude shannon had pointed out that you could use bullion algebra to think about switching circuits. That kind of fed into, well, let's try and use that kind of thing to describe the sort of electrical machine that we have, that is our brains.
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