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The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI

Author: John Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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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.

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"As a young researcher in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), I have enjoyedreading this book to better understand the roadmap of 'machinic life' and AI." -- I-Hsien Ting, Emerald Insight

 
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