The Discovery of the Artificial
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
During the second half of the nineteenth century, researchers in cybernetics and AI, neural nets and connectionism, ALife and new robotics have endeavoured to build different machines that could simulate functions of living organisms, such as adaptation and development, intelligence and learning. In this book these research programs are discussed, and their philosophical significance is stressed. One of the actual novelties in this book consists of the fact that certain projects involving the building of si