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Entry Directory for the Topic of
Computation
Computation
(Thanks master-your-computer.com; play-hookey.com;
history-computer.com; clipartof.com; liveauctioneers.com)
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