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The Mechanical Mind in History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (469 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262256384
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mechanical Mind in HistoryDDC classification:
  • 006.309
LOC classification:
  • Q335.M3956 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Mechanical Mind -- 2 Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason -- 3 D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life1 -- 4 Alan Turing's Mind Machines -- 5 What Did Alan Turing Mean by ''Machine''? -- 6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics -- 7 From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby -- 8 Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines -- 9 Santiago Dreaming -- 10 Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling -- 11 The Mechanization of Art -- 12 The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up -- 13 God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind -- 14 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian -- 15 An Interview with John Maynard Smith -- 16 An Interview with John Holland -- 17 An Interview with Oliver Selfridge -- 18 An Interview with Horace Barlow -- 19 An Interview with Jack Cowan -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Scientists, artists, historians, and philosophers trace the evolution of the idea of intelligent machines, reflecting on the multidisciplinary quest to explain mind scientifically as a wholly mechanical process.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Mechanical Mind -- 2 Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason -- 3 D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life1 -- 4 Alan Turing's Mind Machines -- 5 What Did Alan Turing Mean by ''Machine''? -- 6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics -- 7 From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby -- 8 Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines -- 9 Santiago Dreaming -- 10 Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling -- 11 The Mechanization of Art -- 12 The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up -- 13 God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind -- 14 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian -- 15 An Interview with John Maynard Smith -- 16 An Interview with John Holland -- 17 An Interview with Oliver Selfridge -- 18 An Interview with Horace Barlow -- 19 An Interview with Jack Cowan -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Scientists, artists, historians, and philosophers trace the evolution of the idea of intelligent machines, reflecting on the multidisciplinary quest to explain mind scientifically as a wholly mechanical process.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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