Search Results: design for a brain by ashby w ross

Springer Netherlands. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Springer Netherlands. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

John Wiley & Sons, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. New.

John Wiley & Sons, 1960-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Alpha Editions. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Martino Fine Books, 2014-12-26. Paperback. Used: Good.

Martino Fine Books, 2014-12-26. Paperback. Used:Good.

Chapman and Hall, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1960. 286 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Front endpaper has been removed. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Hinges and guttering are cracked. Binding is loose. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Dust jacket taped to boards and protected by plastic wrapper.

Springer, 0000-00-00. 2nd. paperback. Used: Good.

Springer, 0000-00-00. 2nd. paperback. Used:Good.

John Wiley & Sons, 1952. Book. Near Fine Previous Owners Name and ink stamps. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A very nice copy of the uncommon first edition in dust jacket. Previous owner was a prominent psychoanalyst. .

Chapman and Hall, 1960-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: John Wiley & Sons. Hardcover. 1954. 2nd printing. 8vo 260pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Some discoloration of blue cloth binding on cover edges and spine. DJ has a small spine chip, some small repaired tears and the spine is slightly creased. Attacks the scientific problem: how can the brain, as a mechanism,also be intelligent? Can a mechanism develop a cleverness of its own? And if so, how? It develops the solution as the principle of ultrastability, described in Chapter 8. Has a mathematical treatment in the appendix .

Paperback / softback. New. THE book is not a treatise on aIl cerebral mechanisms but a pro- poscd solution of a specific problem: the origin of the nervous system's unique ability to produce adaptive behaviour. The work has as basis the fact that the nervous system behaves adap- tively and the hypothesis that it is essentiaIly mechanistic; it proceeds on the assumption that these two data are not irrecon- cilable. It attempts to deduce from the observed facts what sort of a mechanism it must be that behaves so differently from any machinc made so far. Other proposed solutions have usuaIly left open the question whether so me different theory might not fit the facts equaIly weIl: I have attempted to deduce what is necessary, what properties the nervous system must have if it is to behave at once mechanisticaIly and adaptively. For the deduction to be rigorous, an adequately developed logic of mechanism is essential. Until recently, discussions of mechan- ism were carried on almost entirely in… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1960. Second Edition, Revised. 286 pp. White endpapers, with ex-library stamps on each, small stains on back endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titles. Small stain on top and bottom edges. Grey DJ with burgundy titles. Light wear along the edges, small stain near spine's tail. VG/VG+. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+.

Chapman and Hall, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Former library book. Signs of wear on the cover. Slightly creased cover. Stains on the edge. Edition 1972. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Chapman and Hall, 2059-12-31. paperback. New. 7x0x10. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Chapman and Hall, 1952. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22 cm). Dust jacket: Tear and slight rubbing to top edge of front cover. Slight wear to ends of spine. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Black cloth binding with a little light marking. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers, clean text throughout. Scarce first printing of this landmark cybernetics work. . Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: ix, 260