Natural-Born Cyborgs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural-Born Cyborgs write by Andy Clark. This book was released on 2003-06-05. Natural-Born Cyborgs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we already are cyborgs. In Natural-Born Cyborgs, Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural practices into our existence. Technology as simple as writing on a sketchpad, as familiar as Google or a cellular phone, and as potentially revolutionary as mind-extending neural implants--all exploit our brains' astonishingly plastic nature. Our minds are primed to seek out and incorporate non-biological resources, so that we actually think and feel through our best technologies. Drawing on his expertise in cognitive science, Clark demonstrates that our sense of self and of physical presence can be expanded to a remarkable extent, placing the long-existing telephone and the emerging technology of telepresence on the same continuum. He explores ways in which we have adapted our lives to make use of technology (the measurement of time, for example, has wrought enormous changes in human existence), as well as ways in which increasingly fluid technologies can adapt to individual users during normal use. Bio-technological unions, Clark argues, are evolving with a speed never seen before in history. As we enter an age of wearable computers, sensory augmentation, wireless devices, intelligent environments, thought-controlled prosthetics, and rapid-fire information search and retrieval, the line between the user and her tools grows thinner day by day. "This double whammy of plastic brains and increasingly responsive and well-fitted tools creates an unprecedented opportunity for ever-closer kinds of human-machine merger," he writes, arguing that such a merger is entirely natural. A stunning new look at the human brain and the human self, Natural Born Cyborgs reveals how our technology is indeed inseparable from who we are and how we think.
Natural-born Cyborgs
Natural-born Cyborgs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural-born Cyborgs write by Andy Clark. This book was released on 2003. Natural-born Cyborgs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About the effects of modern technology on human intelligence.
Natural-born Cyborgs
Natural-born Cyborgs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural-born Cyborgs write by Andy Clark. This book was released on 2003. Natural-born Cyborgs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About the effects of modern technology on human intelligence.
Science Fiction and Philosophy
Science Fiction and Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Fiction and Philosophy write by Susan Schneider. This book was released on 2016-03-07. Science Fiction and Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity Draws on a broad range of science fiction’s more familiar novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New World Provides a gateway into classic philosophical puzzles and topics informed by the latest technology
Supersizing the Mind
Supersizing the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supersizing the Mind write by Andy Clark. This book was released on 2010-12-31. Supersizing the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that our thinking doesn't happen only in our heads but that "certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body and world." The pen and paper of Feynman's thought are just such feedback loops, physical machinery that shape the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind. Drawing upon recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, Supersizing the Mind offers both a tour of the emerging cognitive landscape and a sustained argument in favor of a conception of mind that is extended rather than "brain-bound." The importance of this new perspective is profound. If our minds themselves can include aspects of our social and physical environments, then the kinds of social and physical environments we create can reconfigure our minds and our capacity for thought and reason.
