OBJECT RECORD / AIM-DOC-1943-001

A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

A formal model that treated idealised neural events as logical propositions.

CURATORIAL READING

Why it is here

Under explicit “all-or-none” assumptions, McCulloch and Pitts described neural events and their relations with propositional logic, then related qualifying logical expressions to possible nets.

Evidence boundary

Start with the assumptions. This is neither a literal map of the brain nor a trainable modern neural network; it is a deliberately simplified calculus.

01 / FORMALISE

Position in the guided path

From written rules to learned representations

Idealised neural events become logical operations.

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PROVENANCE

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