The mechanical mind in history / edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler.
| Other author | Husbands, Phil. |
| Other author | Holland, Owen. |
| Other author | Wheeler, Michael, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008. |
| Description | viii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007035271 |
| ISBN | 9780262083775 |
| ISBN | 0262083779 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Q335 .M3956 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |