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Author Johnston, John, 1947-

Title The allure of machinic life : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston
Published Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) : illustrations
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
8 Learning from Neuroscience: New Prospects for Building Intelligent MachinesNotes; 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
Analysis COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence
Notes "A Bradford Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cybernetics.
Artificial life.
Artificial intelligence.
Cybernetics
Artificial Intelligence
cybernetics.
artificial intelligence.
COMPUTERS -- Cybernetics.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial life
Cybernetics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262276351
0262276356
9781435665354
143566535X
9780262101264
0262101262