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Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 June 2015 11:42:37AM 0 points [-]

Just a frivolous comment, but I'm reminded of this classic SF story.

BTW, the "Robert von Engen" in the story is clearly John von Neumann, Engen's book “Logical Control: The Computer vs. Brain” is Neumann's “The Computer and the Brain”, and Engen's paper “Memory Registers: Stimulation Criteria” takes its title from two sections of Neumann's book. I don't know how many other real-world correspondences there are. In the real world, unlike the story, Neumann's book was published posthumously.