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- Title Pages
- Preface
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1 Introduction: The Mechanical Mind -
2 Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason -
3 D’Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life1 -
4 Alan Turing’s Mind Machines -
5 What Did Alan Turing Mean by “Machine”? -
6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics -
7 From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby -
8 Gordon Pask His Maverick Machines -
9 Santiago Dreaming -
10 Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling -
11 The Mechanization of Art -
12 The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up -
13 God’s Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind -
14 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian -
15 An Interview with John Maynard Smith -
16 An Interview with John Holland -
17 An Interview with Oliver Selfridge -
18 An Interview with Horace Barlow -
19 An Interview with Jack Cowan - About the Contributors
- Index
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- Source:
- The Mechanical Mind in History
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
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- Title Pages
- Preface
-
1 Introduction: The Mechanical Mind -
2 Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason -
3 D’Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life1 -
4 Alan Turing’s Mind Machines -
5 What Did Alan Turing Mean by “Machine”? -
6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics -
7 From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby -
8 Gordon Pask His Maverick Machines -
9 Santiago Dreaming -
10 Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling -
11 The Mechanization of Art -
12 The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up -
13 God’s Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind -
14 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian -
15 An Interview with John Maynard Smith -
16 An Interview with John Holland -
17 An Interview with Oliver Selfridge -
18 An Interview with Horace Barlow -
19 An Interview with Jack Cowan - About the Contributors
- Index
