Science-fiction Studies, Volume 27, Part 1SFS Publications., 2000 - Science fiction |
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Page 72
... remains highly problematic . The reductionist rhetoric of neuro - cyber symbiosis reveals a return to the Cartesian AI notion of " mind as computation . " As Hans Moravec acknowledges , this idea is primarily concerned with " minds that ...
... remains highly problematic . The reductionist rhetoric of neuro - cyber symbiosis reveals a return to the Cartesian AI notion of " mind as computation . " As Hans Moravec acknowledges , this idea is primarily concerned with " minds that ...
Page 76
... remains in stark contrast to the binary nature of the digital process . The " phenomenological body in its space- time continuum of sensibility and perception , " necessary to produce " human " thought ( Lyotard 81 ) , remains absent in ...
... remains in stark contrast to the binary nature of the digital process . The " phenomenological body in its space- time continuum of sensibility and perception , " necessary to produce " human " thought ( Lyotard 81 ) , remains absent in ...
Page 85
... remains equivocal . We do not know that the infinite is no longer possible , that new Garden - of - Eden configurations will not succeed . We can , however , be certain that the Copies are no longer infallible Creators of their own ...
... remains equivocal . We do not know that the infinite is no longer possible , that new Garden - of - Eden configurations will not succeed . We can , however , be certain that the Copies are no longer infallible Creators of their own ...
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Wrapped in that mysterious | 22 |
Michael Fisch Nation War and Japans Future in the Science | 49 |
AI ALife and | 69 |
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