The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI (Bradford Books)
"John Johnston is to be applauded for his engaging and eminently readable assessment of the new, interdisciplinary sciences aimed at designing and building complex, life-like, intelligent machines. Cybernetics, information theory, chaos theory, artificial life, autopoiesis, connectionism, embodied autonomous agents--it's all here!" --Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College, and Editor-in-Chief,Artificial Life"As a young researcher in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), I have enjoyedreading this book to better understand the roadmap of 'machinic life' and AI." --I-Hsien Ting,Emerald Insight