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The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
Jessica Riskin
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| #796536 in Books | Riskin Jessica | 2016-03-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.60 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 544 pages | The Restless Clock A History of the Centuries Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating history of artificial life going back as far as ...|By Customer|Fascinating history of artificial life going back as far as a mechanical defecating duck and flute player in 18th century France, and up through the latest research on robots at MIT. The author incisively, and with a natural storyteller's skill, lays bare central constraining metaphors and contradict
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevitable. Since the seventeenth century, many thinkers have made agency, in various forms, cen...
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