Natural-born cyborgs : minds, technologies, and the future of human intelligence /

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From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be fea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Andy
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence > Social aspects.
Cyborgs.
Human-computer interaction.
Neurosciences > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002042521.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0613/2002042521-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2002042521-b.html
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Cyborgs Unplugged
  • CHAPTER 2 Technologies to Bond With
  • CHAPTER 3 Plastic Brains, Hybrid Minds
  • CHAPTER 4 Where Are We?
  • CHAPTER 5 What Are We?
  • CHAPTER 6 Global Swarming
  • CHAPTER 7 Bad Borgs?
  • CHAPTER 8 Conclusions: Post-Human, Moi?
  • Notes
  • Index.

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