Naturoids [[electronic resource] ] : on the nature of the artificial / / Massino Negrotti

• Autore: Negrotti Massimo <1944->
• Pubblicazione: [River Edge], NJ, : World Scientific, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 150 p.)
• Disciplina: 601
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Philosophy; Representation (Philosophy); Simulation methods - Philosophy; Technology - Social aspects
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150).
• Nota di contenuto: Theory: the Icarus syndrome; the concept of artificial - fiction and reality; "copies" of reality; the first step toward the artificial - the observation; eyes and mind - the representations; the exemplar -background and foreground; what is, essentially, a rose?; the difficult synthesis of the observation levels; emergency and transfiguration - ie "something occurs always"; classification of the artificial; a note about automatisms. Practice: the bionic man; the universe under the microscope; the boundary between illusion and compatibility; the artificial as an interface; the difficult choice between structure and process; artificial organs and senses; the artificial brain; prostheses and surrogates; artificial environments; virtual reality.
• Sommario/riassunto: The technology of the artificial may be defined as the effort to reproduce natural objects or processes by means of current conventional technology and materials. This text reports on the results of a theoretical study of the logic characterizing any attempt to design something artificial.
• Titolo autorizzato: Naturoids
• ISBN: 981-277-758-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777462203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II