Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!tjhorton From: tjhorton@utai.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med,comp.ai,sci.misc Subject: Re: Taking AI models and applying them to biology... Message-ID: <3962@utai.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 23:47:26 EDT Article-I.D.: utai.3962 Posted: Sun Jun 14 23:47:26 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 00:38:25 EDT References: <622@unicus.UUCP> <836@pixar.UUCP> <7415@boring.cwi.nl> Reply-To: tjhorton@ai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 13 Xref: utgpu sci.bio:375 sci.med:2087 comp.ai:484 sci.misc:283 Summary: >lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens) writes: >It is perhaps worth pointing out that much of the current models in >cognitive psychology can already be found in the pioneering work of Otto >Selz (Muenchen, 1881 - Auschwitz, 1943), antedating the computer era. 1943 was at least 7 years after Turing published his paper (fifty years ago, last November) and 5 years after Shannon published his thesis about information theory. Although I don't know Selz, his life definitely spanned into the dawn of the "computer era". It's interesting - do these models of his pre-date these "computeresque" notions? Timothy J Horton