{"product_id":"genesis-redux-jessica-riskin-9780226720807","title":"Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. \u003ci\u003eGenesis Redux\u003c\/i\u003e examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely been driven by an impulse to reduce life and mind to machinery. On the contrary, designers of synthetic creatures have generally assumed a role for something nonmechanical. The history of artificial life is thus also a history of theories of soul and intellect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking a historical approach to a modern quandary, \u003ci\u003eGenesis Redux \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and anyone engaged in evaluating these world-changing projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Riskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226720802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226720807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.43w x 1.08d","brand":"Jessica Riskin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48658834653439,"sku":"9780226720807","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7413476b-7a4f-4975-a7aa-2988ad854021.jpg?v=1781198660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genesis-redux-jessica-riskin-9780226720807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}