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Introduction : The mechanical mind / Philip Husbands, Michael Wheeler, and Owen Holland -- Charles Babbage and the emergence of automated reason / Seth Bullock -- D'Arcy Thompson : a grandfather of A-life / Margaret A. Boden -- Alan Turing's mind machines / Donald Michie -- What did Alan Turing mean by "machine"? / Andrew Hodges -- The ratio club : a hub of British cybernetics / Philip Husbands and Owen Holland -- From mechanisms of adaptation to intelligence amplifiers : the philosophy of W. Ross Ashby / Peter M. Asaro -- Gordon Pask and his maverick machines / Jon Bird and Ezequiel Di Paolo -- Santiago dreaming / Andy Beckett -- Steps toward the synthetic method : symbolic information processing and self-organizing systems in early artificial intelligence modeling / Roberto Cordeschi -- The mechanization of art / Paul Brown -- The robot story : why robots were born and how they grew up / Jana Horáková and Jozef Kelemen -- God's machines : Descartes on the mechanization of mind / Michael Wheeler -- Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- An interview with John Maynard Smith -- An interview with John Holland -- An interview with Oliver Selfridge -- An interview with Horace Barlow -- An interview with Jack Cowan. |
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