Quotes from The Living Brain — William Grey Walter
d. 1977
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Some of these patterns of performance were calculable, though only as types of behaviour, in advance; some were quite unforeseen.
The Living Brain (1953)
Not in looks, but in action, the model must resemble an animal. Therefore it must have these or some measure of these attributes: exploration, curiosity, free-will in the sense of unpredictability, goalseeking, self-regulation, avoidance of dilemmas, foresight, memory, learning, forgetting, association of ideas, form recognition, and the elements of social accommodation. Such is life.
The Living Brain (1953)