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  • automata theory
    / The finite automata of McCulloch and Pitts

    …a solid dot (suggesting an endbulb of a neuron). A neuron may be assumed to have either an excitatory or an inhibitory effect on a succeeding one; and it may possess a threshold, or minimum number of unit messages, so to speak, that must be received from other neurons before…

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    …a solid dot (suggesting an endbulb of a neuron). A neuron may be assumed to have either an excitatory or an inhibitory effect on a succeeding one; and it may possess a threshold, or minimum number of unit messages, so to speak, that must be received from other neurons before…

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