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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Source trail
The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, Springer Nature ·