A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Claude Shannon, George Boole, Cognitive Revolution
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Big scientific revolution; sun = centre of universe: 60 years later only people were aware of his work". Mind = a mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. ambrose. If you want measure thing you can measure the surrounding and measure the outcoming behaviour. Transformation of experimental psychology: perception discrimination, memory learning, language verbal behaviour. New developments: (1) new techniques to map mental processes (2) lack of explanation for phenomena; theories are limited (also case for behaviourism) (3) rise of computers / artificial intelligence. Instead of number(1, 2, 3, ), he used truth values (1 and 0: binary system, conjunction, disjunction, negation (and, or, not, truth table (if p is true and q is true = p and q is true)
