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An artificial history of natural intelligence : thinking with machines from Descartes to the digital age / David W. Bates
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024Description: 394 Seiten : Illustrationen, DiagrammeISBN:- 9780226832104
- Technikgeschichte Fach
- Technikphilosophie
- Künstliche Intelligenz
- Ideengeschichte
- Technischer Fortschritt
- Autonomie
- Kognition
- Denken
- Intelligenz
- Thought and thinking
- Artificial intelligence
- Intellect
- COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
- Digital- und Informationstechnologien: soziale und ethische Aspekte
- Ethical & social aspects of IT
- PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
- Philosophie des Geistes
- Philosophy of mind
- France
- Frankreich
- Ideengeschichte 1600-2020
- 153.42
- 153.4/2 23/eng/20230802
- BF441
Contents:
Summary: 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 time again technological developments offered new ways to imagine how the body s automaticity worked alongside the mind s autonomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on technology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural, outside originSummary: "What would it mean to make a decision against the acceleration of automation and for humanity? In An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence, David W. Bates lays the groundwork for such a decision by rethinking the history of human cognition and its entanglements with technology. Tracing evolving lines of thought from the early modern period to the present, Bates confronts the intimate connection between autonomy and automaticity in how we have understood the capacities of the human mind. At the heart of this entanglement is a total mechanistic understanding of nature that began in the seventeenth century and saw the body as machine, the nervous system as control mechanism, and the brain as the center of cognition. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing, Bates reveals how new ideas and experiences reconfigured the ways in which the automaticity of the body could be linked with technical systems, while at the same time the mind could still create the space for autonomy. The result is a new theorization of the human in which the human, dependent on technology, produces itself as an artificial automation that has no "natural" origin"--Call number: Grundsignatur: 2024 A 776PPN: PPN: 1854814451
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freihandbestand ausleihbar | Bibliothek Campus Süd | phil 3 | Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) | 2024 A 776 | Available | 54001734090 |
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