(029823) Ashby, W. Ross. Design For A Brain. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1954. 2nd printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 260 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Some discoloration of blue cloth binding on cover edges and spine. DJ has a small spine chip, some small repaired tears and the spine is slightly creased. Attacks the scientific problem: how can the brain, as a mechanism,also be intelligent? Can a mechanism develop a cleverness of its own? And if so, how? It develops the solution as the principle of ultrastability, described in Chapter 8. Has a mathematical treatment in the appendix (Brain, Cybernetics)
