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41. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles | |
Paperback: 364
Pages
(1999-02-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Hayles tracks this shift across the history of avant-gardecomputer theory, starting with Norbert Weiner and other early"cyberneticists," who were the first to systematically explore thesimilarities between living and computing systems. Hayles's study endswith artificial-life specialists, many of whom no longer even botherto distinguish between life forms and computers. Along the way sheshows these thinkers struggling to reconcile their traditional,Western notions of human identity with the unsettling, cyborgdirections in which their own work seems to be leading humanity. This is more than just the story of a geek elite, however. Hayleslooks at cybernetically inspired science fiction by the likes ofPhilip K. Dick, William Gibson, and Neal Stephenson to show how thelarger culture grapples with the same issues that dog thetechnologists. She also draws lucidly on her own broad grasp ofcontemporary philosophy both to contextualize those issues and tocontend with them herself. The result is a fascinatingintroduction--and a valuable addition--to one of the most importantcurrents in recent intellectual history. --Julian Dibbell Customer Reviews (10)
Hayles Forgets and Didn't do her research
What is the Posthuman Future?
Too full of jargon for me
this book rules, her writing style is near impenetrable This book is good, if only for her obvious reverence for the cyberpunk grandaddy PKD (Phil K Dick if you don't know already).Whether or not you accept her premise that we are already "posthuman" she considers her subject matter in a most interesting and relevent way, bringing in fiction that relates to the subject, as well as the history of computing and cybernetics (with some fun little anecdotes about the one and only Norbert Weiner).If you're a geek or into future-minded philosophy, pick this one up.She makes some convincing arguments, it just takes a good long while to decipher what those arguments actually are.
Resistance is futile - read this book This is the story of how information lost its body and it is an idea which is now well established in Western culture and technology. Yet, Hayles believes it to be misguided. Any informational pattern, be it pebbles on the beach or electrons whizzing across the internet, must have a physical embodiment to exist. The importance of embodiment is also being discovered in fields such as neurology and experimental robotics. A surprisingly large amount of the information processing essential for being a responsive agent in the world goes on in body parts such as nerves, the spine and the proprioception of joints - our powerful human consciousness is a relatively recent add-on. Hayles argues that future posthumans will not be the ethereal information-beings of much of current science fiction, but they will certainly have a much more intimate relationship with computers than we do today. In terms of information flows, a collection of humans and computers contains no boundaries between one and the next. As computers approach the complexity of our bodies and information becomes more important to our work and leisure, humans and computers will become more compatible with each other and there will be an increasing potential for one to collapse into the other. Whether this is to the detriment or betterment of humanity represents a cross-roads which urgently needs to be addressed. Hayles is well aware that technology issues such as these currently concern relatively few people - the majority of the world's population has yet to make their first phone call. Yet, now is precisely when such issues need to be aired before our posthuman futures are set in stone as either assimilated components in a vast machine or as free agents with powerful human-integrated technology at our disposal. ... Read more |
42. Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Weiner, Norbert Wiener | |
Paperback:
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(1986-03)
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The thermostat of society
This book captures the essential aspects of communications. |
43. Sales Cybernetics (Melvin Powers Self-Improvement Library) by Brian Adams | |
Paperback: 305
Pages
(1985-07)
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An oldie but a goodie... |
44. The Cybernetic Shogun by Victor Milan | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(1990-03)
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An Excellent Work |
45. Introduction to cybernetics by Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov | |
Unknown Binding: 322
Pages
(1966)
Asin: B0006BO0J0 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
46. Associative Memory: A System-Theoretical Approach (Communication and Cybernetics) by T. Kohonen | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(1977-01-01)
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47. Organizations as Complex Systems: An Introduction to Knowledge Cybernetics (Managing the Complex) by Maurice Yolles | |
Paperback: 886
Pages
(2010-06-08)
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48. Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living out of Life by Maxwell Maltz | |
Paperback: 282
Pages
(1976-04-15)
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49. A Missing Link in Cybernetics: Logic and Continuity (IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering) by Alex M. Andrew | |
Hardcover: 139
Pages
(2009-03-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description The text begins by reviewing the origins and aims of cybernetics with particular reference to Warren McCulloch’s declared lifetime quest of “understanding man’s understanding”. It is shown that continuous systems can undergo complex self-organization, but a need for classification of situations becomes apparent and can be seen as the evolutionary beginning of concept-based processing. Possibilities for complex self-organization are emphasized by discussion of a general principle that has been termed significance feedback, of which backpropagation of errors in neural nets is a special case. It is also noted that continuous measures come to be associated with processing that is essentially concept-based, as acknowledged in Marvin Minsky’s reference to heuristic connection between problems, and the associated basic learning heuristic of Minsky and Selfridge. This reappearance of continuity, along with observations on the multi-layer structure of intelligent systems, supports a potentially valuable view of intelligence as having a fractal nature. This is such that structures at a complex level, interpreted in terms of these emergent measures, reflect others at a simpler level. Implications for neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence are also examined. The book presents unconventional and challenging viewpoints that will be of interest to researchers in AI, psychology, cybernetics and systems science, and should help promote further research. |
50. Cybernetics Intuitions and Art | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1971-05-24)
Isbn: 0289701082 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
51. Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction by David Porush | |
Paperback: 250
Pages
(1984-12-20)
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52. Reasoning Into Reality: A System Cybernetics Model and Therapeutic Interpretation of Buddhist Middle Path Analysis by Peter Fenner | |
Paperback: 268
Pages
(1995-04-25)
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An Actual Review
Terrible book
How not to understand Madhymika |
53. Cybernetic creativity, by Harold A Rothbart | |
Hardcover: 174
Pages
(1972)
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54. Cybernetics Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine by Norbert Wiener | |
Hardcover: 196
Pages
(2008-06-13)
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55. CYBERNETICS by Norbert Wiener | |
Paperback:
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(1986)
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56. Psycho-Cybernetic Principles For Creative Living by Maxwell Maltz | |
Mass Market Paperback: 256
Pages
(1974-11-01)
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57. God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert Wiener | |
Paperback: 99
Pages
(1966-03-15)
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A worthwhile venture
Good retrospective of the history of computing
Technological Ethics |
58. Cybernetics within us (Wilshire self-improvement library series) by Elena Viktorovna Saparina | |
Paperback: 315
Pages
(1967)
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59. The cybernetic revolution by John Rose | |
Hardcover: 238
Pages
(1974)
Isbn: 0236176331 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
60. Cybernetics: Theory and Applications | |
Hardcover: 455
Pages
(1983-10-01)
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