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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Johnston, John, 1947- Allure of machinic life. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008005358 (OCoLC)192109620 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Johnston |
ISBN: | 9780262276351 0262276356 9781435665354 143566535X 9780262101264 0262101262 |
OCLC Number: | 255975196 |
Notes: | "A Bradford Book." |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Preface; Introduction; I FROM CYBERNETICS TO MACHINIC PHILOSOPHY; 1 Cybernetics and the New Complexity of Machines; 2 The In-Mixing of Machines: Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis; 3 Machinic Philosophy: Assemblages, Information, Chaotic Flow; II MACHINIC LIFE; 4 Vital Cells: Cellular Automata, Artificial Life, Autopoiesis; 5 Digital Evolution and the Emergence of Complexity; III MACHINIC INTELLIGENCE; 6 The Decoded Couple: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science; 7 The New AI: Behavior-Based Robotics, Autonomous Agents, and Artificial Evolution. 8 Learning from Neuroscience: New Prospects for Building Intelligent MachinesNotes; Index. |
Responsibility: | John Johnston. |
Abstract:
This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.
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