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A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity

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Creators

  • Warren McCulloch, author
  • Walter Pitts, author

Canon Rationale

A core neural-computation paper, included for formal neuron models, logic, cybernetics, and the prehistory of artificial intelligence.

Evidence

  • citation context: McCulloch and Pitts, 'A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity,' Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 1943.
  • review essay: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy specialist entries on computation, connectionism, and computational theories of mind.

Audit Flags

version dependency, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read selected core sections of the paper with neural-computation context.

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