McCulloch acknowledges he has made progress on understanding the first half of his question (what a number is) but remains uncertain about the second half (how a man may know a number), and has instead studied simplified biological systems like the frog's eye to approximate answers about neural coding.
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“I think I am fairly clear as to the first half of it. But as the second half, a man that he may know a number, mhm, not yet. I've had to content myself with what a frog's eye tells a frog's brain.”
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Interview with Inventor of Neural Nets Warren McCulloch, neurologist who helped start it way back.— trwappersCreated: 8/12/2026, 10:16:43 PM
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