"The Computer and the Brain" by John von Neumann

[dmm]

This is the last (and somewhat unfinished) short book by John von Neumann.

It's a short book, the PDF file is only 97 pages, the download link is visible from here: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22The+computer+and+the+brain%22"

I've read this very interesting book during the last few days, and I'll record my impressions in the comments to this post.

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[dmm]

This is the last comment I promised above. The rather tragic history of von Neumann writing the material which became this book while dying from cancer is described in detail in the preface.

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I learned about this book here

https://twitter.com/JohnMeuser/status/1293339704226656258

and then John pushed me to actually read it

https://twitter.com/JohnMeuser/status/1296918998391697415

and there are various discussions between us around those threads, e.g.

https://twitter.com/JohnMeuser/status/1297639656922767362

(He is obviously seeing something else there, not what I am seeing, e.g.

https://twitter.com/JohnMeuser/status/1297640700872450050

https://twitter.com/JohnMeuser/status/1297641242474446848

https://twitter.com/JohnMeuser/status/1297639967280291844

Most of what I wrote in those twitter threads is consolidated in my comments to this post.)