TY - JOUR
AU - Edwards, John S.
AB - Book Selection journal articles: the price will discourage the second potential readership, especially students. C.J.L. YEWLETT Reference J.D. COEHLO and H.C.W . L. WILLIAMS (1977) On the design of land use plans through locational surplus maximisation. Working Paper 202, School of Geography, University of Leeds, England. A . HARRY KLOPF Hemisphere, New York, 1982. 138 pp. $19.95 ISBN 0 89116 202 X It will be apparent from the title, perhaps after consulting a dictionary (mine defines hedonism as "the doctrine that pleasure is the highest good"), that this book is of little relevance to most O.R. workers. However, those with a professional or leisure interest in artificial intelligence (A . I . ) or cybernetics will, in my opinion, find the material stimulating and thought- provoking, and the rest of this review is aimed at such people. The book is a revised version of a report originally produced for the United States Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories and sets out a theory of the brain's function based on the postulate that each individual neuron in the brain is a hedonist: it thus 'seeks' excitation (one of the two classes of input it receives) and 'avoids' inhibition (the other). This 
TI - The Hedonistic Neuron: A Theory of Memory, Learning and Intelligence
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
DO - 10.1057/jors.1983.154
DA - 1983-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-hedonistic-neuron-a-theory-of-memory-learning-and-intelligence-XMF0s0r0FG
SP - 651
EP - 652
VL - 34
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -