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“It may be speculated that a large part of human thought consists of manipulating words according to rules of reasoning and rules of conjecture.” “How can a set of (hypothetical) neurons be arranged so as to form concepts? Considerable theoretical and experimental work has been done on this problem by Uttley, Rashevsky and his group, Farley and Clark, Pitts and McCulloch, Minsky, Rochester and Holland, and others. Partial results have been obtained, but the problem needs more theoretical work.”

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