Naturoids : On the Nature of the Artificial.

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Since antiquity, technology has tried to either control or imitate nature. Both these traditions take advantage of the progress of science, but their teleology and their typical design problems remain basically different. The technology of the artificial may be defined as the effort to reproduce nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Negrotti, Massimo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2002.
Temas:
Representation (Philosophy)
Simulation methods > Philosophy.
Technology > Philosophy.
Technology > Social aspects.
Représentation (Philosophie)
Méthodes de simulation > Philosophie.
Technologie > Philosophie.
Technology > Philosophy
Technology > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. theory. 1. The Icarus syndrome
  • 2. The concept of artificial: fiction and reality
  • 3. 'Copies' of reality
  • 4. The first step toward the artificial: observation
  • 5. Eyes and mind: representations
  • 6. The exemplar: background and foreground
  • 7. Essentially, what is a rose?
  • 8. Reality does not offer any discount
  • 9. The difficult synthesis of the observation levels
  • 10. Emergency and transfiguration: i.e. 'something always occurs'
  • 11. Classification of the artificial
  • 12. A note about automatisms
  • pt. II. The reality of the artificial. 1. The bionic man
  • 2. The universe under the microscope
  • 3. The boundary between illusion and compatibility
  • 4. The artificial as an interface
  • 5. The difficult choice between structure and process
  • 6. Artificial organs and senses
  • 7. The artificial brain
  • 8. Prostheses and surrogates
  • 9. Artificial environments
  • 10. Virtual reality
  • 11. Conclusions.

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