The Reality of the Artificial Nature, Technology and Naturoids /

• Main Author: Negrotti, Massimo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 4
• Subjects: Computer science.; History.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Sociology.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; History of Science.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Sociology, general.; Computational Intelligence.

The human ambition to reproduce and improve natural objects and processes has a long history, and ranges from dreams to actual design, from Icarus’s wings to modern robotics and bioengineering. This imperative seems to be linked not only to practical utility but also to our deepest psychology. Never...