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February 11, 2015

Science Tech

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World With Logic

Walter Pitts, who helped develop the “first mechanistic theory of the mind,” was so brilliant he was once been invited to study with Bertrand Russell. He was also homeless.

Amanda Gefter Nautilus Feb 2015 20min Permalink