| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Bradford Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
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8 Learning from Neuroscience: New Prospects for Building Intelligent MachinesNotes; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cybernetics.
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Cybernetics. |
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Artificial life.
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Artificial life. |
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Artificial intelligence.
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Artificial intelligence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnston, John, 1947- Allure of machinic life. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262101264 0262101262 (DLC) 2008005358 (OCoLC)192109620 |
| ISBN |
9780262276351 (electronic book) |
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0262276356 (electronic book) |
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9781435665354 (electronic book) |
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143566535X (electronic book) |
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9780262101264 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262101262 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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