Neosentience: The Benevolence Engine - Couverture souple

Seaman, Bill; Rossler, Otto E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841504041 ISBN 13 : 9781841504049

Editeur : Intellect Books, 2011

Synopsis

The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system, a machine endowed with the capacity to perceive or feel things in the world, as if manifesting a proto-form of (artificial) consciousness. Secondly, it hypothesizes about the rising of benevolence through the interaction/intra-action, between 'neosentient' machines and their environment, which include us, human beings, as inhabitants. The manuscript tackles its task in a very particular manner as it interrelates a constellation of ideas in order to address key research agendas on the fields of language, aesthetics, philosophy, biology, physics, science, technology, mind and consciousness to name some. The goal of the book is not to define the structure within which such an engine could be built, it does not bring into light the blueprint of such an, but it nails down key concepts from a broad range of topics, mapping a path for future research, reinforcing this way the sense of feasibility of its enterprise. In doing so, the book illuminates trajectories, ramifications or even non-directly correlated ideas that would pass unnoticed to the reader’s mind, were not by the authors generously bringing into play sets of key scholars, theories, discoveries and even speculative ideas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bill Seaman is professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Otto E. Rossler is professor of theoretical biochemistry and a chaos researcher at the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Intellect Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841504041
• ISBN 13: 9781841504049
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 287
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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