Genesis Redux

Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life

Autor: Jessica Riskin

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aim...

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Autor

Jessica Riskin

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2007

Stránek

336

EAN

9780226720814

ISBN

0226720810

Enbook ID

04548795

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

606

Rozměry

226 x 151 x 27

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Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. "Genesis Redux" examines key moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely been driven by an impulse to reduce life and mind to machinery. On the contrary, designers of synthetic creatures have generally assumed a role for something nonmechanical. The history of artificial life is thus also a history of theories of soul and intellect. Taking a historical approach to a modern quandary, "Genesis Redux" is essential reading for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and anyone engaged in evaluating these world-changing projects.

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