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Quotes from The Brain As A Computer — Frank Honywill George

d. 1997 England

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In many ways it is true to say that syntax is mathematical logic, semantics is philosophy or philosophy of science, and pragmatics is psychology, but these fields are not really all distinct.

The Brain As A Computer (1962)

This book an attempt will be made to outline the principles of cybernetics and relate them to what we know of behaviour, both from the point of view of experimental psychology and also from the point of view of neurophysiology.

The Brain As A Computer (1962)

The title of the book, The Brain as a Computer, is intended to convey something of the methodology involved; the idea is to regard the brain itself as if it were a computer-type control system, in the belief that by so doing we are making explicit what for some time has been implicit in the biological sciences.

The Brain As A Computer (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Honywill George (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.