Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-20
Books mentioned on #222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cognitive Psychology
Discussed“cognitive psychology had just become a field there was a book published in 67 called cognitive psychology um and the author said that you know the study of the nervous system was only of peripheral interest it wasn't going to tell us anything about the mind”
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Cognitive psychology
Discussed“there was a book published in 67 called cognitive psychology and the author said that you know the study of the nervous system was only of peripheral interest”
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Parallel Distributed Processing
Discussed“for for another brief minute you wrote parallel distributed processing books that explored ideas of neural networks in the 1980s together with a few folks”
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Explorations in cognition
Discussed“dave rummelhart had written a book together with another man named don norman and the book was called explorations in cognition”
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Euclid's Elements
Discussed“but euclid's elements were the the kind of the touch point of a of a coherent document that sort of laid out this idea of an actual formal system within which these objects were characterized and the um the system of uh inference that um allowed new truths to be derived from others was sort of like established as a”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Parallel Distributed Processing
“having written the parallel distributed processing book with david rommelhart who co-authored the backpropagation paper with jeff hinton in their collaborations”
Passing Parallel Distributed Processing
“the following is a conversation with jay mcclelland a cognitive scientist at stanford and one of the seminal figures in the history of artificial intelligence and specifically neural networks having written the parallel distributed processing book with david rommelhart who co-authored the backpropagation paper with jeff hinton in their collaborations they've paved the way for many of the ideas at”