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Berndt Müller
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Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, USA
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Joachim Reinhardt
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, J.-W.-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XIII
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Models of Neural Networks
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Pages 2-11
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Pages 12-22
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Pages 23-36
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Pages 37-44
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Pages 45-50
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Pages 51-61
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Pages 62-72
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Pages 73-86
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Pages 87-103
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Pages 104-112
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Pages 113-118
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Pages 119-125
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Pages 126-131
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Pages 132-144
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Statistical Physics of Neural Networks
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Front Matter
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Pages 146-155
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Pages 156-164
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Pages 165-186
About this book
The mysteries of the human mind have fascinated scientists and philosophers alike for centuries. Descartes identified our ability to think as the foundation stone of ontological philosophy. Others have taken the human mind as evidence of the existence of supernatural powers, or even of God. Serious scientific in vestigation, which began about half a century ago, has partially answered some of the simpler questions (such as how the brain processes visual information), but has barely touched upon the deeper ones concerned with the nature of consciousness and the possible existence of mental features transcending the biological substance of the brain, often encapsulated in the concept "soul". Besides the physiological and philosophical approaches to these questions, so impressively presented and contrasted in the recent book by Popper and Ec cles [P077), studies of formal networks composed of binary-valued information processing units, highly abstracted versions of biological neurons, either by mathematical analysis or by computer simulation, have emerged as a third route towards a better understanding of the brain, and possibly of the human mind. Long remaining - with the exception of a brief period in the early 1960s - a rather obscure research interest of a small group of dedicated scientists scattered around the world, neural-network research has recently sprung into the limelight as a "fashionable" research field.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, USA
Berndt Müller
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, J.-W.-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany
Joachim Reinhardt