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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Johnston, John (1947-....)
Titre(s) : The allure of machinic life [Texte imprimé] : cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI / John Johnston
Publication : Cambridge, [Massachusetts] : The MIT Press, impr 2010
Description matérielle : xiii, 461 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : A Bradford book
Lien à la collection : A Bradford book
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-451) and index
"In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent life
that emerge through technical interactions within human-constructed environments -
"machinic life"--In the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence.
With the development of such research initiatives as the evolution of digital organisms,
computer immune systems, artificial protocells, evolutionary robotics, and swarm systems,
Johnston argues, machinic life has achieved a complexity and autonomy worthy of study
in its own right." "Drawing on the publications of scientists as well as a range of
work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, but always with the primary focus
on the "objects at hand"--the machines, programs, and processes that constitute machinic
life - Johnston shows how they come about, how they operate, and how they are already
changing. This understanding is a necessary first step, he further argues, that must
precede speculation about the meaning and cultural implications of these new forms
of life."--Jacket
Sujet(s) : Cybernétique
Vie artificielle
Intelligence artificielle
Indice(s) Dewey :
003.5 (23e éd.) = Théorie de la communication et de la commande
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262101264. - ISBN 0262101262. - ISBN 9780262515023. - ISBN 0262515024
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456710644
Notice n° :
FRBNF45671064
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : From cybernetics to machinic philosophy ; Cybernetics and the new complexity of
machines ; The in-mixing of machines: cybernetics and psychoanalysis ; Machinic
philosophy: assemblages, information, chaotic flow ; Machinic life ; Vital cells:
cellular automata, artificial life, autopoiesis ; Digital evolution and the emergence
of complexity ; Machinic intelligence ; The decoded couple: artificial intelligence
and cognitive science ; The new Al: behavior-based robotics, autonomous agents, and
artificial evolution ; Learning from neuroscience: new prospects for building intelligent
machines.
