The Cybernetic Imagination in Science FictionMIT Press, 1980 - 282 Seiten Warrick has done a very creditable job on a formidable task: to present a history of science fiction's treatment of artificial intelligence, to analyze that portion of science fiction in terms of recurring images, patterns, and meaning as well as in terms of cross-fertilization with actual science and technology, and 'to make a critical judgment of the literary merit of SF by a rigorous evaluative study of one if its important subgenres, cybernetic SF.' |
Inhalt
Information Theory and Computer Technology | 8 |
2 | 28 |
TwentiethCentury Antecedents | 43 |
The Role of Consciousness | 74 |
Too Much Material | 88 |
Advantages of the Systems Approach | 99 |
Creation as an Ongoing Process | 105 |
The Robot as Metaphor | 113 |
7 | 161 |
Genetic Information Codes | 173 |
Transformations and Reversals | 188 |
Stanislaw Lems Robot Fables and Ironic Tales | 191 |
Conclusion | 198 |
Philip K Dicks Robots | 206 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Notes | 238 |
Conclusion | 127 |
An Automated Society | 134 |
A Natural or an Artificial World? | 145 |
Conclusion | 153 |
Nonfiction Bibliography | 249 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Link alien androids animal appear Arthur Koestler artificial intelligence automata automated awareness become biological Caves of Steel century complex consciousness created creation creative criticism cybernetic fiction cybernetic SF Darko Suvin defined describes Dick Dick's dream dystopian fiction early earth electronic Evitable Conflict evolution evolved explore Frankenstein function future world Heinlein Ibid ideas images individual inventions Isaac Asimov knowledge literary imagination literature living logic machine intelligence man-machine man's Mary Shelley Mary Shelley's mathematical mechanical mechanistic mental metaphor mind Multivac myth nature Norbert Wiener novel open-system model organic pattern Philip K philosophical physical plot possible problem programmed Prometheus puter question reader reality robot stories Science Fiction scientific scientist SF imagination SF writer short story social society space spaceship Stanislaw Lem suggests survival symbiosis theme theory thinking tion transform Trurl universe Utopia vision Wells's York Zamiatin's
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