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Some fifty years back, a synergetic process took place which was to produce ever greater emphasis on the multi-disciplinary approach to science, relating to communication, coding, control and computation in human beings and machines. We attempt here to give a brief overview of the past evolution and future trends for some of the original concepts, mostly those pertaining to sensory coding, logical nets and neural computation to varying degrees of complexity. It is an attempt to make us all relive the excitement and the extraordinary force of the subjects together with the realms of inspiration still to be discovered in the work of the pioneers. It is also a modest contribution towards the commemoration of the Centenary of McCulloch's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of Wiener's book Cybernetics (1948)
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Moreno Díaz, R. (1998). Neurocybernetics, codes and computation. In: Pasqual del Pobil, A., Mira, J., Ali, M. (eds) Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64574-8_386
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