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The mechanical mind in history, edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The mechanical mind in history

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edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland, and Michael Wheeler

The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artifical intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience

Introduction : The mechanical mind / Philip Husbands, Michael Wheeler, and Owen Holland -- Charles Babbage and the emergence of automated reason / Seth Bullock -- D'Arcy Thompson : a grandfather of A-life / Margaret A. Boden -- Alan Turing's mind machines / Donald Michie -- What did Alan Turing mean by "machine"? / Andrew Hodges -- The ratio club : a hub of British cybernetics / Philip Husbands and Owen Holland -- From mechanisms of adaptation to intelligence amplifiers : the philosophy of W. Ross Ashby / Peter M. Asaro -- Gordon Pask and his maverick machines / Jon Bird and Ezequiel Di Paolo -- Santiago dreaming / Andy Beckett -- Steps toward the synthetic method : symbolic information processing and self-organizing systems in early artificial intelligence modeling / Roberto Cordeschi -- The mechanization of art / Paul Brown -- The robot story : why robots were born and how they grew up / Jana Horáková and Jozef Kelemen -- God's machines : Descartes on the mechanization of mind / Michael Wheeler -- Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- An interview with John Maynard Smith -- An interview with John Holland -- An interview with Oliver Selfridge -- An interview with Horace Barlow -- An interview with Jack Cowan