The restless clock : a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick /
Riskin, Jessica,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-531) and index.
Huxley's joke, or the problem of agency in nature and science -- Machines in the garden -- Descartes among the machines -- The passive telescope or the restless clock -- The first androids -- The adventures of Mr. Machine -- Dilemmas of a self-organizing machine -- Darwin between the machines -- The mechanical egg and the intelligent egg -- Outside in -- History matters.
Vitalism.
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Life (Biology)
Science