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Theories of computation and theories of the brain have close historical interrelations, the best-known examples being Turing’s introspective use of the brain’s operation as a model for his idealized computing machine (Turing, 1936), McCulloch’s and Pitts’ use of ideal switching elements to model the brain (McCulloch and Pitts, 1943), and von Neumann’s comparison of the logic and physics of both brains and computers (von Neumann, 1958).
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Pattee, H.H. (1974). Discrete and Continuous Processes in Computers and Brains. In: Conrad, M., Güttinger, W., Dal Cin, M. (eds) Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80885-2_6
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