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Other Index 13: Personal notes
Other Index
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1: Natural Selection
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2: Society
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3: Multistable System
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4: DAMS
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4½: DAMS II
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5: Epistemology
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6: Higher geometry of fields and matrix theory
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7: Psychiatric Applications
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8: Conditioned Reflex
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9: Oddments
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10: Unsolved Problems
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11: Quotations
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12: Subjective
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13: Personal Notes
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14: Slogans and Aphorisms
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Section Title: Personal notes
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Whole notes re-read from the beginning,
1967
.
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A dream of mine
2249
.
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Clifford Allbutt on a type of man,
2830
.
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Handicaps I have been spared,
2854
.
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My theory breaks up the old concepts and replaces them by new constructions; list of examples,
2899
.
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I am carefully avoided,
2915
.
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Origin of the second machine
2950
.
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The book written
3039
.
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I meet Norbert Weiner,
3063
,
3075
.
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Idea for new book: the building of DAMS,
3360
.
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Discussion with Wiener, May '51.
3304
.
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New wiring avoids feedback within the 'cortical' part,
3279
.
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Change of direction at Burden Neurological Institute.
4003
.
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The 'Ashby' solution includes all solutions,
4021
.
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In discussion, before answering a question, force the question into a new,
precise
form before answering
4088
.
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First advertisment for "Design",
4123
.
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How to explain by Dr Johnson,
4212
.
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Reviews of "Design"
:
4258
Observer,
4309
Citizen,
4380
British Medical Journal,
4423
Journal of Consulting Psychology,
4423
McCulloch,
4446
. Hibbert Journal,
4595
Galaxy,
4595
Scientific American,
4643
Occupational Psychology.
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I decide to write Introduction to Cybernetics
4298
.
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I start shorthand,
4416
, I stop it,
4446
, List of symbols,
5108
.
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Re-read my notes completely from page
1000
on,
4606
.
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My ambition
5252
.
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Lazare Courtright gets from "Design for a Brain" a purely emotional message!
5276
.
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The "Introduction to Cybernetics" was, apparently, written at Dad's suggestion.
4298
.
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Program for the next ten years, as seen in 1956
5279
.
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First advert of "Introduction to Cybernetics",
5319
.
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Notes re-read from p.
1000
in Feb '57
5536
.
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Have the Notes come to an end?
5558
.
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Reviews of the "Introduction to Cybernetics".
5531
,
5582
,
5630
,
5748
.
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Design for a Brain seems to have overwhelmed the opposition.
5693
.
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Decision to make DAMS, Mark II.
5747
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Other Index
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1: Natural Selection
|
2: Society
|
3: Multistable System
|
4: DAMS
|
4½: DAMS II
|
5: Epistemology
|
6: Higher geometry of fields and matrix theory
|
7: Psychiatric Applications
|
8: Conditioned Reflex
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9: Oddments
|
10: Unsolved Problems
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11: Quotations
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12: Subjective
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13: Personal Notes
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14: Slogans and Aphorisms
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