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Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
University of Chicago Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-0-226-72083-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-72081-4 | Cloth: 978-0-226-72080-7 Library of Congress Classification BD418.8.G46 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 113.8
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. See other books on: Artificial Intelligence | Artificial life | Computers | Mind & Body | Riskin, Jessica See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Chicago Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-0-226-72083-8
Paper: 978-0-226-72081-4
Cloth: 978-0-226-72080-7
eISBN: 978-0-226-72083-8
Paper: 978-0-226-72081-4
Cloth: 978-0-226-72080-7
Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms.
Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely been driven by an impulse to reduce life and mind to machinery. On the contrary, designers of synthetic creatures have generally assumed a role for something nonmechanical. The history of artificial life is thus also a history of theories of soul and intellect.
Taking a historical approach to a modern quandary, Genesis Redux is essential reading for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and anyone engaged in evaluating these world-changing projects.
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