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Human Cyborgs and Robots: readings

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Victor Gomez Pin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
 Basic Bibliography

- Roberto Cordeschi, The discovery of the Artificial Behavior, Mind and Machines before and beyond Cybernetics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002
- Alan Turing “Computing machinery and intelligence”, Rev. Mind Vol. LIX, nº 236. October 1950, pp. 433-460
- S. Mann & H. Niedzviecki, Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human possibility in the Age of the Wearable computer, Doubleday, Canada, 2001


 Extended Bibliography

- Homer Iliad, tr. M. Hammond (Penguin 1987) Book I and VI (Pandora)
- Homer Iliad, tr. M. Hammond (Penguin 1987) Book VIII and XV (Hephaestos)
- Mary Shelley Frankenstein (Penguin Popular Classics)
- Karel Capek R.U.R, English translation by Paul Selver (1923)
- Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Originally published in 1968 Trade paperback published by Del Ray Currently available.
- Philip K. Dick “The Android and the Human” Lecture in Vancouver 1973.
- Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, Screenplay of Blade Runner http://www.brmovie.com/Downloads/Docs/BR_Script_1981.txt
- Roberto Cordeschi, The discovery of the Artificial Behavior, Mind and Machines before and beyond Cybernetics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002
- Alan Turing “Computing machinery and intelligence”, Rev. Mind Vol. LIX, nº 236. October 1950, pp. 433-460
- John Searle: 
The Rediscovery of the Mind, (1992)
“Minds, Brains and Programs”, Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3 (3), 1980
“Replay to Jacquette”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XLIX, 1989
“Is the Brain’s Mind a Computer Programm?”, Scientific American n 262, 1990
- S. Mann & H. Niedzviecki, Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human possibility in the Age of the Wearable computer, Doubleday, Canada, 2001
- Kevin Warwick, “Kevin Warwick outlines his plan to become one with his computer” Wired Magazine 8.02 Cyborg 1.0 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html
 
 
 
 

 

 

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