LEADER 03793nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910970931503321 005 20240416203029.0 010 $a9780773589926 010 $a0773589929 010 $a9780773589919 010 $a0773589910 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773589919 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418219 035 $a(EBL)3332631 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001141204 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11638601 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001141204 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11090494 035 $a(PQKB)10332391 035 $a(CEL)446136 035 $a(OCoLC)851897231 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00233105 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332631 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748477 035 $a(DE-B1597)656205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773589919 035 $a(Perlego)3551259 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418219 100 $a20130830d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom literature to biterature $eLem, Turing, Darwin, and explorations in computer literature, philosophy of mind, and cultural evolution /$fPeter Swirski 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 311 08$a9780773542952 311 08$a0773542957 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLemmata -- Part One. Biterature -- Computhors -- Bibliosophy -- Transhumana -- 327 $aPart Two. TT -- QED -- ToM -- Y2K+ -- 327 $aPart Three. How to make war and assassinate people -- Biologic, or the Philosophy of error -- Mind your business. 330 $aFrom Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a million-fold, what will such a state of affairs entail in terms of art, culture, social life, and even nonhuman rights? Drawing a map of impending literary, cultural, social, and technological revolutions, Peter Swirski boldly assumes that computers will leap from mere syntax-driven processing to semantically rich understanding. He argues that acknowledging biterature as a species of literature will involve adopting the same range of attitudes to computer authors (computhors) as to human ones and that it will be necessary to approach them as agents with internal states and creative intentions. Ranging from the metafiction of Stanislaw Lem to the "Turing test" (familiar to scientists working in Artificial Intelligence and the philosophers of mind) to the evolutionary trends of culture and machines, Swirski's scenarios lay the groundwork for a new area of study on the cusp of literary futurology, evolutionary cognition, and philosophy of the future. 606 $aComputers and civilization 606 $aArtificial intelligence 606 $aSocial evolution 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy 615 0$aComputers and civilization. 615 0$aArtificial intelligence. 615 0$aSocial evolution. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy. 676 $a303.48/34 700 $aSwirski$b Peter$f1963-$0874151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970931503321 996 $aFrom literature to biterature$94356999 997 $aUNINA