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9780226720814: Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
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ISBN 10: 0226720810 ISBN 13: 9780226720814
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2007

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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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Informazioni sull'autore

Jessica Riskin is associate professor of history at Stanford University and author ofScience in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and winner of the American Historical Association’s J. Russell Major Prize.
Riskin received her Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226720810
ISBN 13 
9780226720814
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
408
Redattore
Riskin Jessica
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