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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 600
EAN: 9780300065121
ISBN: 0300065124
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 282
Publication Date: August 30, 1995
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.
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Are humans fundamentally different from machines? Can machines ever be human like? I read this book after watching the movie Artifical Intelligence starring Robin Williams as the automaton who become increasingly human. The movie reminded me that the ideas MIT history professor Bruce Mazlish discusses in this book will remain with us, if only in artistic imagination, even if you, like me, do not find his central thesis convincing. Roughly, Mazlish sees his ideas coming on the heels of three other breaks in intellectual dichotomies in histories - between the cosmos and the Earth through the Copernican revolution, between humans and the rest of the animal kindom, through the Darwinian revolution, and between the conscious and the sub-conscious through the Freudian revoltuion. Mazlish's contention is that there is no apparent limit to the expansion of intelligence of machines, to the point where he is willing to concede that computers will someday be endowed with emotions. Many might find ... Read More
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