LEADER 03740nam 22006374a 450 001 9910456835903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53748-2 010 $a9786612537486 010 $a0-226-72083-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226720838 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007472 035 $a(EBL)485987 035 $a(OCoLC)593240120 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000338059 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11230358 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338059 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10295685 035 $a(PQKB)10439996 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485987 035 $a(DE-B1597)523339 035 $a(OCoLC)1135583213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226720838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366796 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253748 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007472 100 $a20070129d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGenesis redux$b[electronic resource] $eessays in the history and philosophy of artificial life /$fedited by Jessica Riskin 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-72080-2 311 $a0-226-72081-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tList of Contributors -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Introduction: The Sistine Gap -- $t2. The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- $t3. The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -- $t4. Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -- $t5. Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -- $t6. The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -- $t7. The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -- $t8. Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth- Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -- $t9. The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -- $t10. Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -- $t11. Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -- $t12. Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -- $t13. Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -- $t14. Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- $t15. An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -- $t16. Booting Up Baby -- $t17. Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human -- $tIndex 330 $aSince 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 i 606 $aArtificial life 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArtificial life. 676 $a113/.8 686 $aST 300$2rvk 701 $aRiskin$b Jessica$0964659 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456835903321 996 $aGenesis redux$92216457 997 $aUNINA