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Genesis redux [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / / edited by Jessica Riskin
| Genesis redux [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / / edited by Jessica Riskin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113/.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RiskinJessica |
| Soggetto topico | Artificial life |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-53748-2
9786612537486 0-226-72083-7 |
| Classificazione | ST 300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Sistine Gap -- 2. The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- 3. The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -- 4. Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -- 5. Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -- 6. The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -- 7. The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -- 8. Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth- Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -- 9. The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -- 10. Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -- 11. Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -- 12. Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -- 13. Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -- 14. Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- 15. An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -- 16. Booting Up Baby -- 17. Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456835903321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genesis redux [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / / edited by Jessica Riskin
| Genesis redux [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / / edited by Jessica Riskin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113/.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RiskinJessica |
| Soggetto topico | Artificial life |
| Soggetto non controllato | artificial life, creation, mechanism, consciousness, inanimate, robots, machines, science, technology, intelligence, antiquity, ancient greece, philosophy, giovanni fontana, automata, descartes, shakespeare, locomotion, emotion, mechanics, mandrake, homunculus, art, nature, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, sex ratio, nanotechnology, cyborg, computer, gestalt theory, prayer, affect, religion, spirituality, language, nonfiction |
| ISBN |
1-282-53748-2
9786612537486 0-226-72083-7 |
| Classificazione | ST 300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Sistine Gap -- 2. The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- 3. The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -- 4. Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -- 5. Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -- 6. The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -- 7. The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -- 8. Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth- Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -- 9. The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -- 10. Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -- 11. Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -- 12. Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -- 13. Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -- 14. Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- 15. An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -- 16. Booting Up Baby -- 17. Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781066703321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Genesis redux : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / / edited by Jessica Riskin
| Genesis redux : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / / edited by Jessica Riskin |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113/.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RiskinJessica |
| Soggetto topico | Artificial life |
| ISBN |
1-282-53748-2
9786612537486 0-226-72083-7 |
| Classificazione | ST 300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Sistine Gap -- 2. The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- 3. The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -- 4. Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -- 5. Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -- 6. The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -- 7. The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -- 8. Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth- Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -- 9. The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -- 10. Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -- 11. Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -- 12. Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -- 13. Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -- 14. Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- 15. An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -- 16. Booting Up Baby -- 17. Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820295603321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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