Genesis redux: essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life
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Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007
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Introduction: the Sistine gap / Jessica Riskin -- The imitation of life in ancient Greek philosophy / Sylvia Berryman -- The devil as automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the meanings of a fifteenth-century machine / Anthony Grafton -- Infinite gesture: automata and the emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare / Scott Maisano -- Abstracting from the soul: the mechanics of locomotion / Dennis des Chene -- The anatomy of artificial life: an eighteenth-century perspective / Joan B. Landes -- The homunculus and the mandrake: art aiding nature versus art faking nature / William R. Newman -- Sex ratio theory, ancient and modern: an eighteenth-century debate about intelligent design and the development of models in evolutionary biology / Elliott Sober -- The gender of automata in Victorian Britain / M. Norton Wise -- Techno-humanism: requiem for the cyborg / Timothy Lenoir -- Nanobots and nanotubes: two alternative biomimetic paradigms of nanotechnology / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- Creating insight: Gestalt theory and the early computer / David Bates -- Perpetual devotion: a sixteenth-century machine that prays / Elizabeth King -- Motions and passions: music-playing women automata and the culture of affect in late eighteenth-century Germany / Adelheid Voskuhl -- An archaeology of artificial life, underwater / Stefan Helmreich -- Booting up baby / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Body language: lessons from the near-human / Justine Cassell
Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These stud
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