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Information, mechanism and meaning / [by] Donald M. MacKay.

By: MacKay, Donald MacCrimmon, 1922-.
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1969]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [1969]Description: 1 PDF (viii, 196 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262256605.Subject(s): Information theory | CommunicationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 001.5/39 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. )[190]-192.

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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.

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