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UNINA9910901884303321 |
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Autore |
Wiener Norbert <1894-1964, > |
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God & Golem, Inc : a comment on certain points where cybernetics impinges on religion / / Norbert Wiener |
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Cambridge : , : MIT Press, , [1966] |
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0-262-28615-7 |
0-585-32895-1 |
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[First MIT Press paperback edition.] |
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1 online resource (99 pages) |
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Cybernetics |
Natural theology |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it--cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc. , the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues.The first point he considers is that of the machine which learns. While learning is a property almost exclusively ascribed to the self-conscious living system, a computer now exists which not only can be programmed to play a game of checkers, but one which can "learn" from its past experience and improve on its own game. For a time, the machine was able to beat its inventor at checkers. "It did win," writes the author, "and it did learn to win; and the method of its learning was no different in principle from that of the human being who learns to play checkers. A second point concerns machines which have the capacity to reproduce themselves. It is our commonly held belief that God made man in his own image. The propagation of the race may also be interpreted as a function in which one living being makes another in its own image. But the author demonstrates that man has made machines which are "very well able to make other machines in their own image," and these machine images are not merely pictorial representations but operative images. Can we then say: God is to |
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Golem as man is to Machines? in Jewish legend, golem is an embryo Adam, shapeless and not fully created, hence a monster, an automation.The third point considered is that of the relation between man and machine. The concern here is ethical. "render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's," warns the author. In this section of the book, Dr. Wiener considers systems involving elements of man and machine. The book is written for the intellectually alert public and does not involve any highly technical knowledge. It is based on lectures given at Yale, at the Société Philosophique de Royaumont, and elsewhere. |
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UNINA9910627295303321 |
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Trichoderma : biology and applications / / edited by Prasun K. Mukherjee [and four others] |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; ; Boston : , : CABI, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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9781789244663 |
1789244668 |
9781780642482 |
1780642482 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Trichoderma in Agriculture, Industry and Medicine: An Overview""; ""PART I: TAXONOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY""; ""2 Two Hundred Trichoderma Species Recognized on the Basis of Molecular Phylogeny""; ""3 The Influence of Light on the Biology of Trichoderma""; ""4 Sexual Development in Trichoderma � Scrutinizing |
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the Aspired Phenomenon""; ""5 Asexual Development in Trichoderma: From Conidia to Chlamydospores""; ""6 Volatile Organic Metabolites of Trichoderma spp.: Biosynthesis, Biology and Analytics"" |
""7 Molecular Tools in Trichoderma Genetic Studies""""PART II: INTERACTIONS WITH PLANTS""; ""8 Trichoderma in the Rhizosphere: Looking for Sugar?""; ""9 The Endophytic Trichoderma""; ""10 Promotion of Plant Growth and the Induction of Systemic Defence by Trichoderma: Physiology, Genetics and Gene Expression""; ""11 Trichoderma Genomes: A Vast Reservoir of Potential Elicitor Proteins""; ""12 The Use of Metabolomic Approaches to Study Trichoderma�Plant Interactions""; ""PART III: APPLICATIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE"" |
""13 Trichoderma and the Biorefinery: From Plant Health to Enzymes to Biofuel Production""""14 Trichoderma in Plant Health Management""; ""15 Marine-derived Trichoderma: A Source of New Bioactive Metabolites""; ""16 Trichoderma as Cell Factories""; ""17 Trichoderma as a Human Pathogen""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
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Trichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for its varied applications. Divided into three sections, covering taxonomy and physiology, interactions with plants and applications and significance, this book also discusses topics that have seen rapid developments in the recent years. Various aspects of Trichoderma such as molecular taxonomy, sexual an |
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