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An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

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Availability:In StockContributor:David W. BatesPublish date:2/25/2026Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226849140ISBN-10:226849147UPC:9780226849140Book Category:Philosophy, Computers, ScienceBook Subcategory:Mind & Body, Artificial Intelligence, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCV457K4CJ

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies-autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to David W. Bates, emerged in the seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226849140ISBN-10:226849147UPC:9780226849140Book Category:Philosophy, Computers, ScienceBook Subcategory:Mind & Body, Artificial Intelligence, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCV457K4CJ
David W. Bates is professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books, including Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France.
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