
Ourselves and Computers
Differences in Minds and Machines
Aart Bijl(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 5. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-333-64582-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores how it is that we can know things and show responsibility in all that we do. It challenges the popular image of computers as information and knowledge processors, and opens up old questions about information informing ourselves - questions that are made urgent by new information technology.;The book develops an appreciation of knowledge-free technology, following the tradition of nonsensical formalisms (drawing on Heidegger and Wittgenstein, and on experience in Japan); these we use to inform our feeling and knowing about things in the sciences and in the arts - and in our daily business practices.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-64582-6 (9780333645826)
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Pictures of Ourselves - Knowing in Japan - Space between Yes and No - Showing Yourself - Understanding Technology - Conclusions - References and Bibliography -Index