The coevolution the entwined futures of humans and machines
Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Overview of the Chapters
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Half a Brain
- Remember to Breathe
- Massaging the Message
- Sneaky Gut Bacteria
- Worker Watches
- Mutating Watches
- Bad Boats
- Living Digital Beings
- Clearer Questions
- Doomsday Averted
- Pathetic
- 2. The Meaning of "Life"
- The Technium
- Viruses and Worms
- Artificial Life
- Helpless Procreation
- The Durable and the Digital
- Autopoiesis
- Sprouting from Teenagers and Sparks
- Really Living
- From Orgies to Eating Natural Gas
- Homeostasis
- Metabolism
- Growing
- Brains, Minds, and the Sky
- Connections
- Learning, Pain, and Pleasure
- 3. Are Computers Useless?
- Flynn's IQ
- IQ Rising, Brains Shrinking
- Massaging the Message
- Islands of Disjoint Truths
- Cognitive Cockroaches
- Cautious Optimism
- 4. Say What You Mean
- Did I Say That?
- My Brain's Mouthpiece
- Freudian Slip
- Monkey Mind Control
- From GOFAI to Machine Learning
- Smiling Cats
- Learning and Feedback
- Perceptrons
- From Jellyfish to Dogs
- Feedback in Biology
- 5. Negative Feedback
- Talking to Myself
- Speaking Loudly All at the Same Time
- Feedback from Bell Labs
- Positive Feedback
- Cognitive Feedback
- Self and Non-Self
- Guns and Femurs
- Delayed Feedback
- Predictive Feedback
- Circular Reasoning
- 6. Explaining the Inexplicable
- Flesh and Blood
- Gorillas
- Death by Pneumonia
- Nonsensical Explanations
- 7. The Wrong Stuff
- Rats in Pain
- Am I a Computer?
- Body Matters
- Contemplation
- Making the Virtual Real
- I Forget
- Intelligence Augmentation
- Is My Hammer Out of My Mind?
- Embodied Robots
- Cognitive Feedback
- 8. Am I Digital?
- Are We Alone?
- Teleportation
- Information
- A Thread of Life
- Dataism
- A Universal Machine?
- Borel's Amazing Know-It-All Number
- Too Much Information
- Noiseless Measurements
- Is Time Discrete?
- Imperfect Communication
- Ah, to Be Digital!
- 9. Intelligences
- The Wrong Stuff (Again)
- Humanoid Robots and Creeps
- Tone-Deaf AIs
- Transhumanism and the Singularity
- Goals, Adaptability, and a Miswired Thermostat
- What Do You Know?
- The Hard Problem
- Can You Learn If You Can't Know?
- 10. Accountability
- Who Is the Artist?
- Crashes and Viruses
- A Tale of Tangled Accountability
- Volition
- Imagining Alternatives
- When, Whether, Why, and How
- Vulgarity and Racism
- Machine Creativity
- The Origin of Self
- Hunekers and Mosquitos
- Annoying Balls
- A Worm's Sense of Self
- Is Incompetence Necessary?
- Social Contract
- 11. Causes
- Autonomy
- A Harmless Fiction?
- Subjective Machines
- Does Ugliness Cause Talent?
- Subjective Causality
- Confounders and Colliders
- Hypothetical Intervention: Counterfactuals
- Actual Intervention
- Randomized Controlled Trials
- Uncaused Action
- Metastable States
- Determinism
- Force
- Choice
- Determinism and Interaction
