An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

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A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies--autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to David W. Bates, emerged in the seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing, Bates reveals how time and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226832104

ISBN13:9780226832104

Release Date:April 2024

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Computers Computers & Technology Philosophy Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

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