The Machine as Metaphor and Tool

ISBN 10: 3642777139 / ISBN 13: 9783642777134

Editore: Springer, 2011

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Of course the machine can support human thinking, but can the machine also replace it? At which point does the application of mechanistic models for the description and comprehension of life phenomena reach its limits? This volume discusses the provoking and problematic role machines play in numerous disciplines of the natural sciences. It is written in a non-technical style and will be accessible to a wide readership of scientists and laymen interested in the scientific perspectives and logical foundations of the machine concept, a notion that has been so influential in western thinking.

Contenuti: 1. Introduction.- 2. The Brain’s Software: The Natural Languages and Poetic Information Processing.- 3. The Mechanization of Time.- 4. The Three-Dimensional Text: Computers, Writing and Performance.- 5. Misled by Metaphors: Two Tools that Don’t Always Work.- 6. Bionics Revisited.- 7. Mathematical Machines.- 8. Are Synergetic Systems (Including Brains) Machines?.- 9. From Clocks to Chaos: Humanizing the Mechanistic World-View.

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Titolo: The Machine as Metaphor and Tool
Casa editrice: Springer
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New