26 Aug 2011

Computation Entry Directory

by Corry Shores
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[Central Entry Directory]


Entry Directory for the Topic of
Computation




History and Development of Computation

Pre-History and Early History of Digital Computation in Eves' An Introduction to the History of Mathematics

Leibniz' Representation and Computation of Binary Numerals

The Development of Digital Carry Technology

Ancient Chaos: Ch 2.1 of Mainzer, Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind

The Computation of Becoming and Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche's Pythagoreans

Nietzsche's Eternal Computer in Will to Power §1066

Trask, The Story of Cybernetics, Ch1, "Control"


Analog & Digital Computation



Computation & Machinery

The Abstract Machines of Computation Theory. Marvin Minsky's Computation, Introduction and Finite-State Machines

Programing Abstract Machines: Turing Machines in Boolos & Jeffrey's Computability and Logic

Turing Computation of the Natural Numbers


Computers & Creativity

Criteria for Computer Creativity. Johnson-Laird's Computer and the Mind, Ch 14, "Creation"

Chance and Computer Creativity in Dartnall, "On Having a Mind of Your Own"

Indeterminism & Malfunction in Machine Creativity, Johnson-Laird's Human and Machine Thinking

Random and Rules: Computer Creativity in Goertzel's Chaotic Logic


Neurocomputation & Neural-network Computation

Deleuze's & Guattari's Neurophysiology and Neurocomputation

Analog & Entropy in Neural Computation


Analog Neural Potential Gradation in Marieb & Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology

Quantity of Neurocomputation and Summation Types in Bear, Connors, & Michael, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain

Connectionism and Neuronal Emergence in The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Hebbian Neural Learning Modification in Bear, Connors, & Michael, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain

Synaptic Learning in Marieb & Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology

Synaptic Circuits in Marieb & Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology

Neurogenesis in Bear, Connors, & Michael, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain

Neural Adaptation [Desensitization] in Marieb & Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology

Analog Neural Potential Gradation in Marieb & Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology

Neuronal Assemblages and Reassemblages, in Flohr, "Qualia and Brain Process"


Internal and External Noise, in Ward, Dynamical Cognitive Science


1/f Noise Characterized and Long-term Fractal Layers Described, in Anderson & Mandell, in Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind

Wild Random 1/f Noise in the Human Brain, in Ward, Dynamical Cognitive Science

Entry Directory for Nick Bostrom & Anders Sandberg: Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) (Mental Uploading / Mental Downloading)

Entry Directory, Schonbein, "Cognition and the Power of Continuous Dynamical Systems"


Becoming-Computer, Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics


Andy Clark's Cyborgs and Deleuze's Restructive Element


Natural Computation

Pythagoras' Natural Computers: The Wild Cosmic Computation of Melodies and Flowers

Bateson, Natural Analog and Digital Computation, in Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity


Deleuze's & Computational Logic

Deleuze's Wild Digital Computer Logic: A Formalization of Affirmative Synthetic Exclusive Disjunction's Deformities


Image credits:

slide rule
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/605815

hands counting
http://www.clipartof.com/portfolio/yayayoyo/hands

Leibniz' stepped reckoner
http://history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/Pioneers/Lebniz.html
[Gives detailed explanation of the mechanics of the reckoner]

half-adder circuit
http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/adder.html

abacus
http://www.master-your-computer.com/abacus-history-of-computer.php