Machines For Making Gods
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Gods And Robots
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Author : Adrienne Mayor
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Gods And Robots written by Adrienne Mayor and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with History categories.
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Machines For Making Gods
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Author : Jon Bialecki
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2022-03-01
Machines For Making Gods written by Jon Bialecki and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Religion categories.
The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these two concerns could even exist alongside one another, let alone serve together as the joint impetus for a social movement. Machines for Making Gods investigates the tensions between science and religion through which an imaginative group of young Mormons and ex-Mormons have found new ways of understanding the world. The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) believes that God intended humanity to achieve Mormonism’s promise of theosis through imminent technological advances. Drawing on a nineteenth-century Mormon tradition of religious speculation to reimagine Mormon eschatological hopes as near-future technological possibilities, they envision such current and possible advances as cryonic preservation, computer simulation, and quantum archeology as paving the way for the resurrection of the dead, the creation of worlds without end, and promise of undergoing theosis—of becoming a god. Addressing the role of speculation in the anthropology of religion, Machines for Making Gods undoes debates about secular transhumanism’s relation to religion by highlighting the differences an explicitly religious transhumanism makes. Charting the conflicts and resonances between secular transhumanism and Mormonism, Bialecki shows how religious speculation has opened up imaginative horizons to give birth to new forms of Mormonism, including a particular progressive branch of the faith and even such formations as queer polygamy. The book also reveals how the MTA’s speculative account of God and technology together has helped to forestall some of the social pressure that comes with apostasy in much of the Mormon Intermountain West. A fascinating ethnography of a group with much to say about crucial junctures of modern culture, Machines for Making Gods illustrates how the scientific imagination can be better understood when viewed through anthropological accounts of myth.
God Human Animal Machine
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Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2022-07-12
God Human Animal Machine written by Meghan O'Gieblyn and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Sublime Dreams Of Living Machines
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Author : Minsoo Kang
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Sublime Dreams Of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with History categories.
Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. --
Machines For Making Gods
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Author : Jon Bialecki
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-01
Machines For Making Gods written by Jon Bialecki and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Religion categories.
The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these two concerns could even exist alongside one another, let alone serve together as the joint impetus for a social movement. Machines for Making Gods investigates the tensions between science and religion through which an imaginative group of young Mormons and ex-Mormons have found new ways of understanding the world. The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) believes that God intended humanity to achieve Mormonism’s promise of theosis through imminent technological advances. Drawing on a nineteenth-century Mormon tradition of religious speculation to reimagine Mormon eschatological hopes as near-future technological possibilities, they envision such current and possible advances as cryonic preservation, computer simulation, and quantum archeology as paving the way for the resurrection of the dead, the creation of worlds without end, and promise of undergoing theosis—of becoming a god. Addressing the role of speculation in the anthropology of religion, Machines for Making Gods undoes debates about secular transhumanism’s relation to religion by highlighting the differences an explicitly religious transhumanism makes. Charting the conflicts and resonances between secular transhumanism and Mormonism, Bialecki shows how religious speculation has opened up imaginative horizons to give birth to new forms of Mormonism, including a particular progressive branch of the faith and even such formations as queer polygamy. The book also reveals how the MTA’s speculative account of God and technology together has helped to forestall some of the social pressure that comes with apostasy in much of the Mormon Intermountain West. A fascinating ethnography of a group with much to say about crucial junctures of modern culture, Machines for Making Gods illustrates how the scientific imagination can be better understood when viewed through anthropological accounts of myth.
The Complex Circulatory System
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Author : Lainna Callentine
language : en
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Release Date : 2016-04-06
The Complex Circulatory System written by Lainna Callentine and has been published by New Leaf Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
[F]ocuses on the heart. blood, and blood vessels that make up the body's circulatory system. . . . Readers learn how the deliberate design of their bodies enables it to function as it should, just as God meant for it to"--Page [4] of cover.
Angel Machine In The Deep
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Author : Sean M. T. Shanahan
language : en
Publisher: Sean M. T. Shanahan
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Angel Machine In The Deep written by Sean M. T. Shanahan and has been published by Sean M. T. Shanahan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Unfathomable Depths, Unfathomable Terror A primeval horror lies entombed in the cold, dark depths. And the enemy is about to unleash it... A cold-sweat thrill-ride, combining the terror and action of Event Horizon, Bioshock, and Aliens. Danni is the last demigod, gifted with the power of fire. She’s lived long enough for humanity to colonise the Moon. But that comes with centuries of trauma. She’s fought beasts of myth and battles of history, but barely survived an encounter with an Angel—an eldritch automaton so beyond comprehension, it flays the mind. After her failure, she is content to drink herself into an immortal stupor. But she is tracked down. The Pantheon—an ancient organisation guarding against chaos—has need of her once more. They found another Angel on the ocean floor. And an army of monsters has overrun the deep sea containment facility; they mean to wake it up. Danni is the only one who can confront the Angel, even if she believes it’s a suicide mission. She must face her fear, lead humanity’s best soldiers into the abyss, and stop the forces of darkness before they unleash doom upon the world. Can she conquer her trauma and face the darkness before it’s too late? Find out in Angel Machine In The Deep, the third novella in The Science Myth Saga!
Machines Who Think
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Author : Pamela McCorduck
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2004-03-17
Machines Who Think written by Pamela McCorduck and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-17 with Computers categories.
This book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry.
The Electrifying Nervous System
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Author : Dr. Lainna Callentine
language : en
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Release Date : 2014-09-01
The Electrifying Nervous System written by Dr. Lainna Callentine and has been published by New Leaf Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Medical categories.
Discover Your Design! Developed by a homeschooling pediatrician, this book focuses on the amazing design and functionality of the human body’s nervous system. You will discover: The main areas and structures of the brain and what important role each plays in making your body work Awesome examples of God’s creativity in both the design and precision of human anatomy showing you are wonderfully made Important historical discoveries and modern medical techniques used for diagnosis and repair of the brain! Learn interesting and important facts about why you sleep, the function of the central nervous system, what foods can superpower your brain functions, and much more in a wonderful exploration of the brain and how it controls the wondrous machine known as your body!
The Peak Of Reincarnation
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Author : Catherine Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Geoffrey Steadman
Release Date : 2019-08-15
The Peak Of Reincarnation written by Catherine Garcia and has been published by Geoffrey Steadman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Fiction categories.
He twisted the neck of a monster, and the monster that was roaring madly under him suddenly became silent. He inserted his hand into the skull of the monster and fumbled out a yellowish-brown translucent crystal. He rubbed it with his tattered sleeve and threw it into his mouth. With a teeth-aching chewing sound, a thumb-sized crystal core was bitten into pieces and swallowed into his stomach.