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Genesis Redux Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life

By Jessica , Riskin

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780226720814, 0226720810, 9780226720838, 0226720837
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4533661 bytes)
Pages
408 Seiten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 i ...

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