Warren McCulloch's Turn to Cybernetics: What Walter Pitts Contributed

Author: Aizawa Kenneth  

Publisher: Maney Publishing

ISSN: 1743-2790

Source: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol.37, Iss.3, 2012-09, pp. : 206-217

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Abstract

This paper explores part of the making of a cyberneticist. It examines Walter Pitts' contribution to two of McCulloch's most celebrated publications, `A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity' and `How we Know Universals: the Perception of Auditory and Visual Forms'. What we find, in part, is that Pitts provided mathematical clarity and rigor to McCulloch's views on psychons and circular causality.