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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
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Kaebnick, Gregory E.,

Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…

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9781461936398
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1 online resource (vi, 214 pages .).
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Alien agency :experimental encounters with art in the making
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Salter, Chris,Pickering, Andrew,

"In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art - the 'stuff of the world' - behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying thse works - all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and technology - allows him to focus on practice through the experien…

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9780262323598
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1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) :illustrations
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The allure of machinic life Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
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Johnston, John

This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.

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1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) : illustrations
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The allure of machinic life :cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI
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Johnston, John,

"A Bradford Book."This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262276351
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1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) :illustrations
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R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
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CAPEK, Karel

R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life offers a new, highly faithful translation by Štěpán Šimek of Czech novelist, playwright, and critic Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots, as well as twenty essays from contemporary writers on the 1920 play. R.U.R. is perhaps best known for first coining the term “robot” (in Czech, robota means serfdom or arduous drudgery). The tw…

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