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The Biology of Computer Life. Survival, Emotion and Free Will.
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Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GBC; HP; PB; PD; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
The doctrine of computer life is not congenial to many people. Often they have not thought in any depth about the idea, and it necessarily disturbs their psychological and intellectual frame of reference: it forces a reappraisal of what it is to be alive, what it is to be human, and whether there are profound, yet un expected, implications in the development of modern com puters. There is abundant evidence to suggest that we are wit nessing the emergence of a vast new family of life-forms on earth, organisms that are not based on the familiar metabolic chemistries yet whose ... Read more
The doctrine of computer life is not congenial to many people. Often they have not thought in any depth about the idea, and it necessarily disturbs their psychological and intellectual frame of reference: it forces a reappraisal of what it is to be alive, what it is to be human, and whether there are profound, yet un expected, implications in the development of modern com puters. There is abundant evidence to suggest that we are wit nessing the emergence of a vast new family of life-forms on earth, organisms that are not based on the familiar metabolic chemistries yet whose ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Birkhauser United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781468480528
SKU
V9781468480528
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