How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer
models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines …

The creativity and emergence of biological and psychological behavior tend to be nonlinear,
and correspondingly, biological and psychological measures contain degrees of irregularity …

Abstract Evolution-in-materio (EIM) is the manipulation of a physical system by computer
controlled evolution (CCE). It takes the position that to obtain useful functions from a physical …

A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities
that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a …

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by
which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (eg, difflugia) to multi …

This paper aims to enrich our understanding of the history and substance of cybernetics. It
reviews the work of three British cyberneticians-W. Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer and Gordon …

This final chapter proposes a number of questions that we think are important for future
research in relation to computers and creativity. Many of these questions have emerged in …

My topic is materiality and how ideas on materiality from my field–science and technology
studies (STS)–might cross over into management and organization studies.'Sociomateriality' …

It is argued that natural evolution is, par excellence, an algorithm that exploits the physical
properties of materials. Such an exploitation of the physical characteristics has already been …