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The Machine as metaphor and tool

Title
The Machine as metaphor and tool / Hermann Haken, Anders Karlqvist, Uno Svedin, eds.
Publication
Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Haken, H.
  • Karlqvist, Anders.
  • Svedin, Uno, 1943-
Description
viii, 165 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Machinery in literature
  • Metaphor
  • Metaphor
  • metaphor
  • Mechanicisme
  • Kunstmatige intelligentie
  • Philosophie de la technique
  • Machines
  • Technique et civilisation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction / Anders Karlqvist and Uno Svedin -- 2. The Brain's Software: The Natural Languages and Poetic Information Processing / S. Ryan Johansson -- 3. The Mechanization of Time / Lennart Lundmark -- 4. The Three-Dimensional Text: Computers, Writing and Performance / Julian Hilton -- 5. Misled by Metaphors: Two Tools that Don't Always Work / A.K. Dewdney -- 6. Bionics Revisited / Robert Rosen -- 7. Mathematical Machines / Paul Henry -- 8. Are Synergetic Systems (Including Brains) Machines? / Hermann Haken -- 9. From Clocks to Chaos: Humanizing the Mechanistic World-View / Stephen Toulmin.
ISBN
  • 3540558160
  • 9783540558163
  • 0387558160
  • 9780387558165
LCCN
93008406
OCLC
  • ocm28183629
  • 28183629
  • SCSB-1998831
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Princeton University Library