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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Mechanical mind in history. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, ©2008 (OCoLC)181142511 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Phil Husbands; Owen Holland; Michael Wheeler |
ISBN: | 9780262256384 026225638X 9781435631731 1435631730 1282096419 9781282096417 9786612096419 6612096411 0262311127 9780262311120 |
OCLC Number: | 209047731 |
Language Note: | English. |
Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (458 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler. |
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