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Author | : Norbert Wiener |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1966-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262730112 |
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The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it—cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc., the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues.The first point he considers is that of the machine which learns. While learning is a property almost exclusively ascribed to the self-conscious living system, a computer now exists which not only can be programmed to play a game of checkers, but one which can "learn" from its past experience and improve on its own game. For a time, the machine was able to beat its inventor at checkers. "It did win," writes the author, "and it did learn to win; and the method of its learning was no different in principle from that of the human being who learns to play checkers. A second point concerns machines which have the capacity to reproduce themselves. It is our commonly held belief that God made man in his own image. The propagation of the race may also be interpreted as a function in which one living being makes another in its own image. But the author demonstrates that man has made machines which are "very well able to make other machines in their own image," and these machine images are not merely pictorial representations but operative images. Can we then say: God is to Golem as man is to Machines? in Jewish legend, golem is an embryo Adam, shapeless and not fully created, hence a monster, an automation.The third point considered is that of the relation between man and machine. The concern here is ethical. "render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's," warns the author. In this section of the book, Dr. Wiener considers systems involving elements of man and machine. The book is written for the intellectually alert public and does not involve any highly technical knowledge. It is based on lectures given at Yale, at the Société Philosophique de Royaumont, and elsewhere.
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Author | : Norbert Wiener |
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Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Norbert Wiener |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262731119 |
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An insider's view of the history of discovery and invention.
Author | : James Sturm |
Publisher | : Drawn and Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
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I. The revival : Cane Ridge, Kentucky, 1801 : thousands of pilgrims look towards heaven to find salvation -- II. Hundreds of feet below daylight : Solomon's Gulch, Idaho, 1886 : the last residents of a mining town continue their descent -- III. The golem's mighty swing : small town America, the early 1920s : a barnstorming Jewish baseball team create a golem to deliver them from their trials.
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Download Gott & Golem Inc (God and Golem, Inc., dt. - Übertr. v. Eva Maria Ritter. Bearb. v. J. H. [Bernhard] u. L. Bernhard. l. Aufl.) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Yehudah Yudl Rozenberg |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 030013472X |
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This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to claim that the author transformed the centuries-old understanding of the creature of clay and single-handedly created the myth of the golem as protector of the Jewish people during times of persecution. In addition to translating Rosenberg's classic golem story into English for the first time, Curt Leviant also offers an introduction in which he sets Rosenberg's writing in historical context and discusses the golem legend before and after Rosenberg's contributions. Generous annotations are provided for the curious reader. The book is full of adventures, surprises, romance, suspense, mysticism, Jewish pride, and storytelling at its best. The Chief Rabbi of Prague, known as the Maharal, brings the golem Yossele to life to help the Jews fight false accusations of ritual murder-the infamous blood libel. More human, more capable, and more reliable as a protector than any golem imagined before, Rosenberg's Golem irrevocably changed one of the most widely influential icons of Jewish folklore.
Author | : Susanne K. Langer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780801816079 |
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Proposes a theory of evolution that accounts for the development of human intellect from animal mentality.