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The coevolution : the entwined futures of humans and machines / / Edward Ashford Lee
| The coevolution : the entwined futures of humans and machines / / Edward Ashford Lee |
| Autore | Lee Edward A. <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 358 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 004.01/9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Computer systems - Philosophy
Technology - Philosophy Human-computer interaction |
| ISBN |
0-262-35836-0
0-262-35837-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview of the Chapters -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Half a Brain -- Remember to Breathe -- Massaging the Message -- Sneaky Gut Bacteria -- Worker Watches -- Mutating Watches -- Bad Boats -- Living Digital Beings -- Clearer Questions -- Doomsday Averted -- Pathetic -- 2. The Meaning of "Life" -- The Technium -- Viruses and Worms -- Artificial Life -- Helpless Procreation -- The Durable and the Digital -- Autopoiesis -- Sprouting from Teenagers and Sparks -- Really Living -- From Orgies to Eating Natural Gas -- Homeostasis -- Metabolism -- Growing
Brains, Minds, and the Sky -- Connections -- Learning, Pain, and Pleasure -- 3. Are Computers Useless? -- Flynn's IQ -- IQ Rising, Brains Shrinking -- Massaging the Message -- Islands of Disjoint Truths -- Cognitive Cockroaches -- Cautious Optimism -- 4. Say What You Mean -- Did I Say That? -- My Brain's Mouthpiece -- Freudian Slip -- Monkey Mind Control -- From GOFAI to Machine Learning -- Smiling Cats -- Learning and Feedback -- Perceptrons -- From Jellyfish to Dogs -- Feedback in Biology -- 5. Negative Feedback -- Talking to Myself -- Speaking Loudly All at the Same Time Feedback from Bell Labs -- Positive Feedback -- Cognitive Feedback -- Self and Non-Self -- Guns and Femurs -- Delayed Feedback -- Predictive Feedback -- Circular Reasoning -- 6. Explaining the Inexplicable -- Flesh and Blood -- Gorillas -- Death by Pneumonia -- Nonsensical Explanations -- 7. The Wrong Stuff -- Rats in Pain -- Am I a Computer? -- Body Matters -- Contemplation -- Making the Virtual Real -- I Forget -- Intelligence Augmentation -- Is My Hammer Out of My Mind? -- Embodied Robots -- Cognitive Feedback -- 8. Am I Digital? -- Are We Alone? -- Teleportation -- Information A Thread of Life -- Dataism -- A Universal Machine? -- Borel's Amazing Know-It-All Number -- Too Much Information -- Noiseless Measurements -- Is Time Discrete? -- Imperfect Communication -- Ah, to Be Digital! -- 9. Intelligences -- The Wrong Stuff (Again) -- Humanoid Robots and Creeps -- Tone-Deaf AIs -- Transhumanism and the Singularity -- Goals, Adaptability, and a Miswired Thermostat -- What Do You Know? -- The Hard Problem -- Can You Learn If You Can't Know? -- 10. Accountability -- Who Is the Artist? -- Crashes and Viruses -- A Tale of Tangled Accountability -- Volition Imagining Alternatives -- When, Whether, Why, and How -- Vulgarity and Racism -- Machine Creativity -- The Origin of Self -- Hunekers and Mosquitos -- Annoying Balls -- A Worm's Sense of Self -- Is Incompetence Necessary? -- Social Contract -- 11. Causes -- Autonomy -- A Harmless Fiction? -- Subjective Machines -- Does Ugliness Cause Talent? -- Subjective Causality -- Confounders and Colliders -- Hypothetical Intervention: Counterfactuals -- Actual Intervention -- Randomized Controlled Trials -- Uncaused Action -- Metastable States -- Determinism -- Force -- Choice -- Determinism and Interaction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910901896803321 |
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2020] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Introduction to embedded systems : a cyber-physical systems approach / / Edward Ashford Lee and Sanjit Arunkumar Seshia
| Introduction to embedded systems : a cyber-physical systems approach / / Edward Ashford Lee and Sanjit Arunkumar Seshia |
| Autore | Lee Edward A. <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | The MIT Press Open |
| Disciplina | 006.2/2 |
| Soggetto topico | Embedded computer systems |
| ISBN | 0-262-53381-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996437054003316 |
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Lee Edward A. <1957->
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| The MIT Press Open | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Plato and the nerd : the creative partnership of humans and technology / / Edward Ashford Lee
| Plato and the nerd : the creative partnership of humans and technology / / Edward Ashford Lee |
| Autore | Lee Edward A. <1957-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 PDF (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 601 |
| Collana | The MIT Press |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology - Philosophy
Computer science Creative ability |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Popular works. |
| Soggetto non controllato | COMPUTER SCIENCE/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-34121-2
0-262-34120-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; I Yang; 1 Shadows on the Wall; 1.1 Nerds; 1.2 Artificial and Natural; 1.3 Design and Discovery; 1.4 Engineering and Science; 2 Inventing Laws of Nature; 2.1 The Unknown Knowns; 2.2 Models of Nature; 2.3 Models Are Wrong; 3 Models of Models of Models of Models of Things; 3.1 Technological Tapestries; 3.2 Complexity Simplified; 3.3 Transitivity of Models; 3.4 Reductionism; 4 Hardware Is Ephemeral; 4.1 Hard and Soft; 4.2 Semiconductors; 4.3 Digital Switches; 4.4 Logic Gates; 4.5 Logic Diagrams; 4.6 Digital Machines; 5 Software Endures; 5.1 Self-Scaffolding
5.2 Instruction Set Architectures5.3 Programming Languages; 5.4 Operating Systems; 5.5 Libraries, Languages, and Dialects; 5.6 The Cloud; 6 Evolution and Revolution; 6.1 Normal Engineering; 6.2 Crisis and Failure; 6.3 Crisis and Opportunity; 6.4 Models in Crisis; II Yin; 7 Information; 7.1 Pessimism Becomes Optimism; 7.2 Information-Processing Machines; 7.3 Measuring Information; 7.4 Continuous Information; 8 The Limits of Software; 8.1 Universal Machines?; 8.2 Undecidability; 8.3 Cardinality; 8.4 Digital Physics?; 9 Symbiosis; 9.1 The Notion of a Continuum 9.2 The Impossible Becomes Possible9.3 Digital Psyche?; 9.4 Symbiotic Partnership; 9.5 Incompleteness; 10 Determinism; 10.1 Laplace's Demon; 10.2 The Butterfly Effect; 10.3 Incompleteness of Determinism; 10.4 The Hard and the Soft of Determinism; 11 Probability and Possibility; 11.1 The Bayesians and the Frequentists; 11.2 Continuums, Again; 11.3 Impossibility and Improbability; 12 Final Thoughts; 12.1 Dualism; 12.2 Obstacles; 12.3 Autonomy and Intelligence; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910901883803321 |
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Lee Edward A. <1957->
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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