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God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Weiner, Norman
(1st thus)
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Book description: Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1966. (1st thus). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean, faint curl. 2 pages with folded corners, 1 comment in margin. Exterior has slight rubbing and light age soil and light wear to edges. National Book Award Winner. Norbert Weiner coined the term cybernetics and here examines the religious issues related to the field. Three major issues: The ability to learn is attributed almost exclusively to living creatures, yet computers which can learn now exist; Man is supposed to have created man in his own image, yet man has now created machines capable of producing other machines in their own image; The interaction between man and machine. Based on lectures given at Yale, the Societe Philosophique de Royamont, and other universities.
- Bookseller: Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
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- Bookseller Inventory #: 79T009
- Format/binding: Trade Paperback
- Book condition: VERY GOOD+
- Edition: (1st thus)
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: M.I.T. Press
- Place: Cambridge, MA
- Date published: 1966
- Subjects:
COMPUTERS / General;
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