Information, Mechanism and Meaning
Author | : Donald MacCrimmon MacKay |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1969 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780262630320 |
ISBN-13 | : 026263032X |
Rating | : 4/5 (32X Downloads) |
Download or read book Information, Mechanism and Meaning written by Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of selected papers written by the information theorist and "brain physicist," most of which were presented to various scientific conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of this collection concerns MacKay's abiding preoccupation with information as represented and utilized in the brain and exchanged between human beings, rather than as formalized in logical patterns of elementary propositions.