Donald Olding Hebb

psychologist · 11 mentions across 2 readings

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Donald Olding Hebb is a foundational neuroscientist whose theory of synaptic plasticity—the idea that learning occurs through changes in the strength of connections between neurons—underpins early cybernetic and computational theories of mind. In these readings, his work is invoked to explain how the brain stores long-term memory through variations in synaptic strength, grounding abstract discussions of neural "assemblies" and cortical organization in a mechanistic account of learning. Hebb's insight that "neurons that fire together wire together" becomes essential for bridging biological and computational models of cognition in the course's exploration of AI and cybernetics.

Mentioned in 2 readings

I.J. Good

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

If we abandon interpretations of meaning in terms of linguistic transformations, such as dictionary definitions, or, in the case of statements, the two interpretations mentioned before; and if also we do not regard the behavioral interpreta…form of this theory will be adopted here. The meaning and point of the theory can be explained in terms of its applications to the linguistic activities of the brain, although the theory is usually discussed in a more general context. There…It will be assumed in this paper that there are also subassemblies that can be active without dominating the whole cortex, and also that when an assembly becomes fatigued and breaks up it leaves several of its own subassemblies active for v…

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Minsky

Papert - from Perceptrons_ An Introduction to Computational Geometry

From such ideas emerged the intellectual movement called cybernetics, which attempted to combine many concepts from biology, psychology, engineering, and mathematics. The cybernetics era produced a flood of architectural schemes for making …The mystique surrounding such machines is based in part on the idea that when such a machine learns the information stored is not localized in any particular spot but is, instead, “distributed throughout” the structure of the machine’s netw…

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