文档介绍：computer science/artificial intelligence
John Johnston is Professor of English parative Litera- “John Johnston is to be applauded for his engaging and eminently readable assessment of the Johnston
ture at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of Carnival new, interdisciplinary sciences aimed at designing and plex, lifelike, intelligent The Allure of Machinic Life
of Repetition and Information Multiplicity. machines. ics, information theory, chaos theory, artificial life, autopoiesis, connection- ics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
ism, embodied autonomous agents—it’s all here!”
—Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College, and Editor-in-Chief, John Johnston
Artificial Life The Allure of Machinic Life
Cover image: Of related interest In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new
Joseph Nechvatal, ignudiO gustO majOr, computer-robotic-assisted acrylic on
canvas, 66” x 120”. Photo courtesy Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard. forms of nascent life that emerge through technical inter-
© 2003 Joseph Nechvatal. How the Body Shapes the Way We Think ics, Artificial Life, and the New AI actions within human-constructed environments­—“machinic
A New View of Intelligence life”­—in the sciences of ics, artificial life, and artificial
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard The Allure of Machinic Life intelligence. With the development of such research initiatives
How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the as the evolution of anisms, computer immune sys-
body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demon- tems, artificial protocells, evolutionary robotics, and swarm
strate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same systems, Johnston argues, machinic life has achieved -
time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foun- plexity and autonomy worthy of