The Mechanical Mind in History

Description

The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture, and t tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions--the unrecognized origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science, and neuroscience. In The Mechanical Mind in History, scientists, artists, historians, and philosophers discuss the multidisciplinary quest to formalize and understand the generation of intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems as a wholly mechanical process.

The contributions illustrate the diverse and interacting notions that chart the evolution of the idea of the mechanical mind. They describe the mechanized mind as, among other things, an analogue system, an organized suite of chemical interactions, a self-organizing electromechanical device, an automated general-purpose information processor, and an integrated collection of symbol manipulating mechanisms. They investigate the views of pivotal figures that range from Descartes and Heidegger to Alan Turing and Charles Babbage, and they emphasize such frequently overlooked areas as British cybernetic and pre-cybernetic thinkers. The volume concludes with the personal insights of five highly influential figures in the field: John Maynard Smith, John Holland, Oliver Selfridge, Horace Barlow, and Jack Cowan.

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "The Mechanical Mind in History" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 1605
2. Forming the Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind)
3. Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering (History of Technology)
4. A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
5. A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
6. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda, Third Edition
7. The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History
8. The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs
9. The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution
10. Mind As Machine: A History of Cognitive Science Two-Volume Set
11. Kurt Danziger - Marking the Mind: A History of Memory
12. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Mechanical Design (McGraw-Hill Mechanical Engineering)
13. Optimizing the Shape of Mechanical Elements and Structures (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))
14. Mechanical Analysis of Electronic Packaging Systems (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))
15. Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))
16. Mechanical Tolerance Stackup and Analysis (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))