Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason
Seth Bullock
19
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D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life
Margaret A. Boden
41
4
Alan Turing's Mind Machines
Donald Michie
61
5
What Did Alan Turing Mean by "Machine’"?
Andrew Hodges
75
6
The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics
Philip Husbands and Owen Holland
91
7
From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby
Peter M. Asaro
149
8
Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines
Jon Bird and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
185
9
Santiago Dreaming
Andy Beckett
213
10
Steps Toward the Synthetic Method Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling
Roberto Cordeschi
219
11
The Mechanization of Art
Paul Brown
259
12
The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up
Jana Horáková and Jozef Kelemen
283
13
God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind
Michael Wheeler
307
14
Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian
Hubert L. Dreyfus
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