ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Categorical Logic, Bombe, Noam Chomsky
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Cognitive revolution = the mind is embedded in the brain and can be investigated. Ende 19 anfang 20sten jh behaviorism: principle: behavior results of our surrounding. We can only study the behavior part and relate this to the environment. Techniques to map mental processes became available. George boole developed a new way to use a mathematic like approach to work with logic. He wrote a book: the laws of thought worked out the principles of boolean logic: instead of numbers. He used boolean operators: and, or, not truth tables: It is monday and i am giving a lecture (p) (q) Claude elwood shannon (mathematician) wrote a very influential master thesis. He was interested in the work of boole. Important hypotheses about language in computational systems, such as speech recognition. John von neumann (mathematician) developed the famous computer model. he saw a link between the computer model he developed and the brain.
