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The Reality of the Artificial (Record no. 22087)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642296796
978-3-642-29679-6
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Classification number Q334-342
Classification number TJ210.2-211.495
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 006.3
Edition number 23
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2012.
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Personal name Negrotti, Massimo.
Relator term author.
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Title The Reality of the Artificial
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Nature, Technology and Naturoids /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Massimo Negrotti.
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Extent VIII, 160 p. 1 illus.
Other physical details online resource.
440 1# - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics,
International Standard Serial Number 2192-6255 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 4
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Formatted contents note Part I -- Chap. 1 Daedalus and Icarus -- Chap. 2 Artificiality and Naturoids -- Chap. 3 Duplicating Reality -- Part II -- Chap. 4 The First Step: Observation -- Chap. 5 Observation and Representations -- Chap. 6 The Exemplar and Its Definition -- Chap. 7 Essentiality of Things -- Part III -- Chap. 8 The Mind Reduces Complexity, Reality Does Not Make Discounts -- Chap. 9 The Problem of Synthesis -- Chap. 10 Transfiguration -- Part IV -- Chap. 11 Classification of the Artificial -- Chap. 12 Automatisms and Naturoids -- Chap. 13 Naturoids in Real Contexts: Bionic Man and Robots -- Chap. 14 The Challenge of Complexity -- Chap. 15 Illusion and Compatibility -- Part V -- Chap. 16 Naturoids: Interface and Camouflage -- Chap. 17 Structure or Process? -- Chap. 18 Artificial Limbs: History and Current Trends -- Chap. 19 The Artificial Brain -- Chap. 20 Prostheses, Replacements and Surrogates -- Chap. 21 Artificial Environments and Landscapes -- Chap. 22 Virtual Reality -- Chap. 23 Conclusions -- Appendix A Naturoids and Music -- Sect. A.1 Reproduction and Transfiguration -- Sect. A.2 The Rarefaction of Meaning -- Sect. A.3 Statements by Writers or Scholars in the Humanities -- Sect. A.4 Statements by Composers -- Appendix B Naturoids and Conventional Technology Devices -- References.
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Summary, etc The human ambition to reproduce and improve natural objects and processes has a long history, and ranges from dreams to actual design, from Icarus’s wings to modern robotics and bioengineering. This imperative seems to be linked not only to practical utility but also to our deepest psychology. Nevertheless, reproducing something natural is not an easy enterprise, and the actual replication of a natural object or process by means of some technology is impossible. In this book the author uses the term naturoid to designate any real artifact arising from our attempts to reproduce natural instances. He concentrates on activities that involve the reproduction of something existing in nature, and whose reproduction, through construction strategies which differ from natural ones, we consider to be useful, appealing or interesting. The development of naturoids may be viewed as a distinct class of technological activity, and the concept should be useful for methodological research into establishing the common rules, potentialities and constraints that characterize the human effort to reproduce natural objects. The author shows that a naturoid is always the result of a reduction of the complexity of natural objects, due to an unavoidable multiple selection strategy. Nevertheless, the reproduction process implies that naturoids take on their own new complexity, resulting in a transfiguration of the natural exemplars and their performances, and leading to a true innovation explosion. While the core performances of contemporary naturoids improve, paradoxically the more a naturoid develops the further it moves away from its natural counterpart. Therefore, naturoids will more and more affect our relationships with advanced technologies and with nature, but in ways quite beyond our predictive capabilities. The book will be of interest to design scholars and researchers of technology, cultural studies, anthropology and the sociology of science and technology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Computer science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science
General subdivision History.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Artificial intelligence.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Computer Science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History of Science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sociology, general.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Computational Intelligence.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642296789
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29679-6
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