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God Golem Inc
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1966-03-15
God Golem Inc written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-03-15 with Philosophy categories.
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.
God And Golem Inc
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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God And Golem Inc
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language : en
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Release Date : 1964
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God And Golem Inc
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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God Golem Inc
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Author : Norbert Wiener
language : fr
Publisher: éditions de l’éclat
Release Date : 2001
God Golem Inc written by Norbert Wiener and has been published by éditions de l’éclat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Cybernetics categories.
Si l'homme a créé la machine à " l'image de son intelligence ", quelle image la machine lui renvoie-t-elle en retour ? Serait-ce celle d'un homme ayant perdu l'intelligence de son savoir, et qui se destine à devenir le golem de sa propre destruction ?
Golem
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Author : David Wisniewski
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007-11-19
Golem written by David Wisniewski and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by David Wisniewski's unique cut-paper illustrations, Golem is a dramatic tale of supernatural forces invoked to save an oppressed people. It also offers a thought-provoking look at the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control. The afterword discusses the legend of the golem and its roots in the history of the Jews. A Caldecott Medal Book.
James Sturm S America
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Author : James Sturm
language : en
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Release Date : 2007-10-02
James Sturm S America written by James Sturm and has been published by Drawn and Quarterly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-02 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
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.
Mind
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Author : Susanne K. Langer
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1967
Mind written by Susanne K. Langer and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Proposes a theory of evolution that accounts for the development of human intellect from animal mentality.
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
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Author : Tiqqun
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
The Cybernetic Hypothesis written by Tiqqun and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Political Science categories.
An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance. The cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens living beings, machines, societies—that is, to create the experimental conditions for a continuous revitalization, to constantly restore the integrity of the whole. —from The Cybernetic Hypothesis This early Tiqqun text has lost none of its pertinence. The Cybernetic Hypothesis presents a genealogy of our “technical” present that doesn't point out the political and ethical dilemmas embedded in it as if they were puzzles to be solved, but rather unmasks an enemy force to be engaged and defeated. Cybernetics in this context is the teknê of threat reduction, which unfortunately has required the reduction of a disturbing humanity to packets of manageable information. Not so easily done. Not smooth. A matter of civil war, in fact. According to the authors, cybernetics is the latest master fable, welcomed at a certain crisis juncture in late capitalism. And now the interesting question is: Has the guest in the house become the master of the house? The “cybernetic hypothesis” is strategic. Readers of this little book are not likely to be naive. They may be already looking, at least in their heads, for a weapon, for a counter-strategy. Tiqqun here imagines an unbearable disturbance to a System that can take only so much: only so much desertion, only so much destituent gesture, only so much guerilla attack, only so much wickedness and joy.
Golem
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Author : Maya Barzilai
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Golem written by Maya Barzilai and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Religion categories.
2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJR A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes In the 1910s and 1920s, a “golem cult” swept across Europe and the U.S., later surfacing in Israel. Why did this story of a powerful clay monster molded and animated by a rabbi to protect his community become so popular and pervasive? The golem has appeared in a remarkable range of popular media: from the Yiddish theater to American comic books, from German silent film to Quentin Tarantino movies. This book showcases how the golem was remolded, throughout the war-torn twentieth century, as a muscular protector, injured combatant, and even murderous avenger. This evolution of the golem narrative is made comprehensible by, and also helps us to better understand, one of the defining aspects of the last one hundred years: mass warfare and its ancillary technologies. In the twentieth century the golem became a figure of war. It represented the chaos of warfare, the automation of war technologies, and the devastation wrought upon soldiers’ bodies and psyches. Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters draws on some of the most popular and significant renditions of this story in order to unravel the paradoxical coincidence of wartime destruction and the fantasy of artificial creation. Due to its aggressive and rebellious sides, the golem became a means for reflection about how technological progress has altered human lives, as well as an avenue for experimentation with the media and art forms capable of expressing the monstrosity of war. New Books Network interview with Maya Barzilai on Golem