Claude Shannon’s Brief “Discourse on Method”

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The following study departs from the lecture, entitled “Creative thinking”, delivered by Claude Shannon in 1952 at the Bell Laboratories. This paper includes an interpretive and critical account of the necessary conditions (innate and acquired), as well as the desirable procedures, which must be satisfied in the scientific and technological invention, within the frame of the so-called scientist’s spontaneous philosophy (SSP).

Keywords

• Analogía
• Generalización
• Método
• Modelo
• Shannon