![Für diesen Artikel ist leider kein Bild verfügbar.](/img/platzhalter480px.png)
The Biology of Computer Life
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8176-3298-4 (ISBN)
- Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage - Artikel merken
And it seems clear that much of the continuing refinement of biological categories will be stimulated by advances in systems theory, and in particular by those advances that relate to the rapidly expanding world of computing and robotics. We should also remember what Pant in (1968) said in a different context: 'the biological sciences are unrestricted ...and their investigator must be prepared to follow their problems into any other science whatsoever.
1 The Nature of Computer Life.- Preamble.- Are Computers Alive?.- Means, Ends and Entropy.- Strategies for Survival.- Symbiosis and Survival.- Evolution and Machines.- Features of Computer Life.- Summary.- 2 Exploring the Life Criteria.- Preamble.- The Place of Energy.- The Importance of Information.- The Route to Reproduction.- Growth in Machines.- Summary.- 3 Freedom and Autonomy.- Preamble.- The Miller Decider.- Philosophy and Free Will.- Free Will as Choice.- The Autonomous Computer.- The Autonomous Robot.- Creativity and Chance.- Summary.- 4 Towards Artificial Emotion.- Preamble.- Reason and Emotion.- The Physiology of Emotion.- The Cybernetics of Emotion.- AI, Cognition and Emotion.- Emotion in Computers.- The Ethical Computer.- The Aesthetic Computer.- Summary.- 5 Relating to Computer Life.- Preamble.- Responses to Computer Life.- Developing the Relationship.- The Intimate Connection.- Summary.- 6 The Future.- References.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.1988 |
---|---|
Zusatzinfo | biography |
Verlagsort | Secaucus |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8176-3298-0 / 0817632980 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8176-3298-4 / 9780817632984 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich