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Genesis Redux

Author : Jessica Riskin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226720837
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Genesis Redux written by Jessica Riskin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely been driven by an impulse to reduce life and mind to machinery. On the contrary, designers of synthetic creatures have generally assumed a role for something nonmechanical. The history of artificial life is thus also a history of theories of soul and intellect. Taking a historical approach to a modern quandary, Genesis Redux is essential reading for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and anyone engaged in evaluating these world-changing projects.

Genesis Redux

Author : Ed Rietman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Genesis Redux written by Ed Rietman and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis Redux makes cutting-edge research into biotechnology, neural networks, artificial intelligence, robotics, ecosystems, and cellular biology accessible. Contains artificial life simulation for BASIC, C, and Pascal programmers. Interactive programs on disk allow programmers to create complex, dynamic organisms on their PCs.

Genesis Redux

Author : Edward Rietman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780070527379
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Genesis Redux written by Edward Rietman and published by . This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genesis Redux: When Ya Gotta Go, Ya Gotta Go

Author : R. Alan Elder
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633381404
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Genesis Redux: When Ya Gotta Go, Ya Gotta Go written by R. Alan Elder and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophic events leave Earth uninhabitable. Two former astronauts lead a group of couples on an adventure to reenact the book of Genesis on Mars. The adventure begins when Earth receives a mysterious message from space warning of the impending entry of an unwanted influence into Earth's solar system. "Genesis Redux" is an opportunity to start the processes of populating a world all over again. Let's hope they get it right this time.

Genesis Redux

Author : Dylan S. Hearn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536842005
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Genesis Redux written by Dylan S. Hearn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One person, two lives, and a challenge to the old world order. With Tandelli and O'Driscoll on the run, Stephanie imprisoned, and the traditionalist faction of Global Governance vanquished, all Indigo's goals are realised. Yet in her moment of triumph, victory is snatched from her grasp. Stripped of her patronage and with enemies on all sides, she finds herself in the biggest fight of her life. In this stunning climax to the Transcendence Trilogy, nobody is safe as the once secret struggle to control humanity's future breaks out into the open. Who will win in this battle for ultimate power: the Investigator, torn between duty and protecting his family; the crime lord, wanting revenge on those who took his kingdom away; Global Governance, riven by in-fighting but still a force to be reckoned with; or the person who started it all, even though she'd rather be dead?

A Beginner's Guide to America

Author : Roya Hakakian
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525565922
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to America written by Roya Hakakian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by choice" (The Boston Globe). Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is Hakakian's candid love letter to America.

Before the Law

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922405
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Before the Law written by Cary Wolfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics. Wolfe argues that the human-animal distinction must be supplemented with the central distinction of biopolitics: the difference between those animals that are members of a community and those that are deemed killable but not murderable. From this understanding, we can begin to make sense of the fact that this distinction prevails within both the human and animal domains and address such difficult issues as why we afford some animals unprecedented levels of care and recognition while subjecting others to unparalleled forms of brutality and exploitation. Engaging with many major figures in biopolitical thought—from Heidegger, Arendt, and Foucault to Agamben, Esposito, and Derrida—Wolfe explores how biopolitics can help us understand both the ethical and political dimensions of the current questions surrounding the rights of animals.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191019720
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment written by Valerie Traub and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.

Leadership Varieties

Author : Alexander Styhre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317377990
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Leadership Varieties written by Alexander Styhre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all periods of time, there is a perceived shortage of qualified, credible, and robust leadership skills. At the same time, what is regarded as skilled leadership is contingent on economic, political, institutional, and cultural conditions specific for a period of time or a local setting. Leadership in the era of managerial capitalism was focused on planning and administration, and was seated in large-scale, divisionalized corporations. In the 1970s, this economic model started to wane and leadership was advanced as the solution to a series of economic and social concerns, now being a matter of meaning-making in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity. With the expansion of the finance industry and the deregulation of finance markets in the 1990s and in the new millennium, yet another leadership model increasingly prioritized economic value creation. In parallel to the economic, political and institutional changes, the idea of leadership has been strongly informed by new ideas about individualism and masculinity, adding to the understanding of leadership as what is anchored in widespread social beliefs about for example healthy life styles, the virtues of physical exercise, and novel gender relations. Aimed at scholars, researchers, students and policy makers in the fields of Leadership, Management History and Organizational Theory; Leadership Varieties examines predominant ideas about the qualities and virtues of leadership in a historical and cultural perspective.

Bedeviled

Author : Jimena Canales
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691241686
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Bedeviled written by Jimena Canales and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments—experiments that can only be done in the imagination—and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology. Spanning four centuries of discovery—from René Descartes, whose demon could hijack sensorial reality, to James Clerk Maxwell, whose molecular-sized demon deftly broke the second law of thermodynamics, to Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, and beyond—Jimena Canales tells a shadow history of science and the demons that bedevil it. She reveals how the greatest scientific thinkers used demons to explore problems, test the limits of what is possible, and better understand nature. Their imaginary familiars helped unlock the secrets of entropy, heredity, relativity, quantum mechanics, and other scientific wonders—and continue to inspire breakthroughs in the realms of computer science, artificial intelligence, and economics today. The world may no longer be haunted as it once was, but the demons of the scientific imagination are alive and well, continuing to play a vital role in scientists' efforts to explore the unknown and make the impossible real.

The Orchestral Revolution

Author : Emily I. Dolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028256
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Orchestral Revolution written by Emily I. Dolan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment. Using Haydn as a focal point, it examines how the consolidation of the modern orchestra radically altered how people listened to and thought about the expressive capacity of instruments.

Beyond the Finite

Author : Roald Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199792747
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Finite written by Roald Hoffmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and the unrepresentable. How does one depict negative mass, for example, or the folding of a protein that is contagious? Can one capture emergent phenomena as they emerge? Science is continually faced with describing that which is beyond. This book, through contributions from nine prominent scholars, tackles that challenge. The explorations within Beyond the Finite range from the images taken by the Hubble Telescope to David Bohm's quantum romanticism, from Kant and Burke to a "downward spiraling infinity" of the 21st century sublime, all lucid yet transcendent. Squarely positioned at the interface between science and art, this volume's chapters capture a remarkable variety of perspectives, with neuroscience, chemistry, astronomy, physics, film, painting and music discussed in relation to the sublime experience, topics surely to peak the interest of academics and students studying the sublime in various disciplines.

Advances in Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies

Author : Colette Faucher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319670247
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems and in Cross-Cultural Psychological Studies written by Colette Faucher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers valuable new insights into the design of culturally-aware systems. In its first part, it is devoted to presenting selected Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems devised in the field of Artificial Intelligence and its second part consists of two sub-parts that offer a source of inspiration for building modelizations of Culture and of its influence on the human mind and behavior, to be used in new Culturally-Aware Intelligent Systems. Those sub-parts present the results of experiments conducted in two fields that study Culture and its influence on the human mind’s functions: Cultural Neuroscience and Cross-Cultural Psychology. In this era of globalization, people from different countries and cultures have the opportunity to interact directly or indirectly in a wide variety of contexts. Despite differences in their ways of thinking and reasoning, their behaviors, their values, lifestyles, customs and habits, languages, religions – in a word, their cultures – they must be able to collaborate on projects, to understand each other’s views, to communicate in such a way that they don’t offend each other, to anticipate the effects of their actions on others, and so on. As such, it is of primary importance to understand how culture affects people’s mental activities, such as perception, interpretation, reasoning, emotion and behavior, in order to anticipate possible misunderstandings due to differences in handling the same situation, and to try and resolve them. Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically, the field of Intelligent Systems design, aims at building systems that mimic the behavior of human beings in order to complete tasks more efficiently than humans could by themselves. Consequently, in the last decade, experts and scholars in the field of Intelligent Systems have been increasingly tackling the notion of cultural awareness. A Culturally-Aware Intelligent System can be defined as a system where Culture-related or, more generally, socio-cultural information is modeled and used to design the human-machine interface, or to provide support with the task carried out by the system, be it reasoning, simulation or any other task involving cultural knowledge.

Visual Culture in Organizations

Author : Alexander Styhre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136950087
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture in Organizations written by Alexander Styhre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the literature on vision and visuality that is relevant to organizational theory, proposes a theoretical framework for visual culture in organizations, and provides empirical illustrations to the theoretical framework. It shows that visual practices are a central procedure in the day-to-day routines of organizations and are long overdue for close examination.

The Poetics of Slumberland

Author : Scott Bukatman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951506
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Slumberland written by Scott Bukatman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination. The book broadens to consider similar "animated" behaviors in seemingly disparate media—films about Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh; the musical My Fair Lady and the story of Frankenstein; the slapstick comedies of Jerry Lewis; and contemporary comic superheroes—drawing them all together as the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.

The Mirror and the Mind

Author : Katja Guenther
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691237255
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror and the Mind written by Katja Guenther and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects—humans, infants, animals, and robots—in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test, exploring how researchers from a range of disciplines—psychoanalysis, psychiatry, developmental and animal psychology, cybernetics, anthropology, and neuroscience—came to read the peculiar behaviors elicited by mirrors. Investigating the ways mirrors could lead to both identification and misidentification, Guenther looks at how such experiments ultimately failed to determine human specificity. The mirror test was thrust into the limelight when Charles Darwin challenged the idea that language sets humans apart. Thereafter the mirror, previously a recurrent if marginal scientific tool, became dominant in attempts to demarcate humans from other animals. But because researchers could not rely on language to determine what their nonspeaking subjects were experiencing, they had to come up with significant innovations, including notation strategies, testing protocols, and the linking of scientific theories across disciplines. From the robotic tortoises of Grey Walter and the mark test of Beulah Amsterdam and Gordon Gallup, to anorexia research and mirror neurons, the mirror test offers a window into the emergence of such fields as biology, psychology, psychiatry, animal studies, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The Mirror and the Mind offers an intriguing history of experiments in self-awareness and the advancements of the human sciences across more than a century.

Diseases of the Head

Author : Matt Rosen
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1953035116
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Diseases of the Head written by Matt Rosen and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diseases of the Head is an anthology of essays from contemporary philosophers, artists, and writers working at the crossroads of speculative philosophy and speculative horror. At once a compendium of multivocal endeavors, a breviary of supposedly illicit ponderings, and a travelogue of philosophical exploration, this collection centers itself on the place at which philosophy and horror meet. Employing rigorous analysis, incisive experimentation, and novel invention, this anthology asks about the use that speculation can make of horror and horror of speculation, about whether philosophy is fictional or fiction philosophical, and about the relationship between horror, the exigencies of our world and time, and the future developments that may await us in philosophy itself. From philosophers working on horrific themes, to horror writers influenced by heresies in the wake of post-Kantianism, to artists engaged in projects that address monstrosity and alienation, Diseases of the Head aims at nothing less than a speculative coup d'état. Refusing both total negation and absolute affirmation, refusing to deny everything or account for everything, refusing the posture of critique and the posture of all-encompassing unification, this collection of essays aims at exposition and construction, analysis and creation - it desires to fight for some thing, but not everything, and not nothing. And it desires, most of all, to speak from the position of its own insufficiency, its own partiality, its own under-determinacy, which is always indicative of the practice of thinking, of speculation. Considering themes of anonymity, otherness and alterity, the gothic, extinction and the world without us, the end times, the apocalypse, the ancient and the world before us, and the uncanny or unheimlich, among other motifs, this anthology seeks to articulate the cutting edge which can be found at the intersection of speculative philosophy and speculative horror.