The book is really about the evolution of thought on how the brain might work.
Author Tom Griffiths discusses three areas of exploration and development that all work together to form the current mathematical models of our brain that are also used in current AI systems.
“Logic and neural networks are two threads tracing their way back through time, each corresponding to a different way of thinking about the mind,” Griffiths writes.
“Probability theory is a third thread that is intertwined with both of them.”
It’s the branch of mathematics that analyzes randomness, uncertainty and the likelihood of certain outcomes.
