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Almost thirty-five years ago in their classic paper, McCulloch and Pitts (1943) described a method for modeling the nervous system. The basic idea of McCulloch and Pitts’ paper is that the nervous system can be described as a finite set of elements, called neurons, that have only two states, “on” and “off,” They assumed that time could be quantized into a set of discrete instants, so that the state of a neuron at the next instant of time would be a function of the present states of the neurons (and external inputs) that impinged on it.
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Cull, P. (1978). A Matrix Algebra for Neural Nets. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_43
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