After half a century of cognitive revolution we remain far from agreement about what
cognition is and what cognition does. It was once thought that these questions could wait …

For millennia people have wondered what makes the living different from the non-living.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, artificial life has studied living systems using a synthetic …

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices,
in our cinemas, in art galleries and-not least-on the Internet. The results of Artificial …

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the
human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in …

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are
connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of …

What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic
definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical development of phenomenology …

Computational Intelligence comprises concepts, paradigms, algorithms, and
implementations of systems that are supposed to exhibit intelligent behavior in complex …

MANY theories have been advanced over the years to explain why people behave as they
do. Until recently the most common view, popularized by various personality doctrines …

How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And
just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative …

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history,
technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers …