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The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. But
tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich
network of cross-disciplinary contributions--the unrecognized origins of ideas now
central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science, and
neuroscience. In The Mechanization of Mind in History, scientists, artists,
historians, and philosophers discuss the multidisciplinary quest to formalize and
understand the generation of intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems
as a wholly mechanical process. The contributions illustrate the diverse and
interacting notions that chart the evolution of the idea of the mechanical mind.
They describe the mechanized mind as, among other things, an analogue system, an
organized suite of chemical interactions, a self-organizing electromechanical
device, an automated general-purpose information processor, and an integrated
collection of symbol manipulating mechanisms. They investigate the views of pivotal
figures that range from Descartes and Heidegger to Alan Turing and Charles Babbage,
and they emphasize such frequently overlooked areas as British cybernetic and
pre-cybernetic thinkers. The volume concludes with the personal insights of five
highly influential figures in the field: John Maynard Smith, John Holland, Oliver
Selfridge, Horace Barlow, and Jack Cowan.Philip Husbands is Professor of Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at the
University of Sussex and Codirector of the Sussex Centre for Computational
Neuroscience and Robotics. Owen Holland is Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Essex. Michael Wheeler is Reader in Philosophy at the
University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The
Next Step (MIT Press, 2005).ContributorsPeter Asaro, Horace Barlow, Andy Beckett,
Margaret Boden, Jon Bird, Paul Brown, Seth Bullock, Roberto Cordeschi, Jack Cowan,
Ezequiel Di Paolo, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Hodges, Owen Holland, Jana Horáková,
Philip Husbands, Jozef Kelemen, John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie, Oliver Selfridge,
Michael Wheeler
Husbands / Holland / Wheeler
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tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich
network of cross-disciplinary contributions--the unrecognized origins of ideas now
central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science, and
neuroscience. In The Mechanization of Mind in History, scientists, artists,
historians, and philosophers discuss the multidisciplinary quest to formalize and
understand the generation of intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems
as a wholly mechanical process. The contributions illustrate the diverse and
interacting notions that chart the evolution of the idea of the mechanical mind.
They describe the mechanized mind as, among other things, an analogue system, an
organized suite of chemical interactions, a self-organizing electromechanical
device, an automated general-purpose information processor, and an integrated
collection of symbol manipulating mechanisms. They investigate the views of pivotal
figures that range from Descartes and Heidegger to Alan Turing and Charles Babbage,
and they emphasize such frequently overlooked areas as British cybernetic and
pre-cybernetic thinkers. The volume concludes with the personal insights of five
highly influential figures in the field: John Maynard Smith, John Holland, Oliver
Selfridge, Horace Barlow, and Jack Cowan.Philip Husbands is Professor of Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at the
University of Sussex and Codirector of the Sussex Centre for Computational
Neuroscience and Robotics. Owen Holland is Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Essex. Michael Wheeler is Reader in Philosophy at the
University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The
Next Step (MIT Press, 2005).ContributorsPeter Asaro, Horace Barlow, Andy Beckett,
Margaret Boden, Jon Bird, Paul Brown, Seth Bullock, Roberto Cordeschi, Jack Cowan,
Ezequiel Di Paolo, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Hodges, Owen Holland, Jana Horáková,
Philip Husbands, Jozef Kelemen, John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie, Oliver Selfridge,
Michael Wheeler
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