Neural Nets, Memory and the Internet by risa
No single person ever does anything. It’s always groups of people. We wanted to know how to go about building such a system. So I got interested in the subject of neural nets. Warren McCulloch in particular inspired me. He described how he could excise a part of the brain, and the function in that part would move over to another part. As we get older – at least this was thought in those days – the number of brain cells decreases but we’re able to use the surviving functionality effectively. As you and I are getting older, we know it takes a little time to remember a word – so we find a synonym. We have more trouble with proper nouns because there’s lower redundancy. McCulloch’s version of the brain had the characteristics I felt would be important in designing a really reliable communication system.
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