Effective Processes and Natural Law
Robert Rosén · 1990
Abstract One of the most remarkable confluences of ideas in modem scientific history occurred in the few short years between the publication of Gödel’soriginal papers on formal undecidability in 1931, and the work of McCulloc hand Pitts on neural networks, which appeared in 1943. During these twelve years, fundamental interrelationships were established between logic, mathematics, the theory of the brain, and the possibilities of digital computation, which still literally takes one’s breath away to contemplate in their full scope. It was believed at that time, and still is today, over half a century later, that these ideas presage a revolution as fundamental as that achieved by Newton three centuries earlier.