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E-book Cyborg Mind : What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

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The seventeenth-century French architect, physician, anatomist and inven-tor Claude Perrault (1613–1688) is best known for designing the front of the Louvre Museum in Paris. But he left another legacy. Eleven years after his death, a small book was published entitled Recueil de plusieurs machines, de nouvelle invention (Collected Notes of a Number of Machines, of New Invention). The book contained a description for creating an advanced form of abacus, an ingenious calculating machine. This piece of equipment would, Perrault believed, be of great use to a ‘computer’ – a physical person who performs mathematical computations. In coining the term ‘computer’, therefore, he had in mind a physical person rather than an object.But history has a curious way of reassigning the use of language. For Perrault, the person was still the principal calculator, while his machine was a tool to help the user perform calculations. Though he believed the machine would have its uses, the person was clearly more capable.Time, however, has moved on! A half-decent office computer now per-forms more than a billion calculations every second, selecting data from many billions of items stored locally on computer disks or chips. As a result, for some kinds of tasks, the machine can outstrip its master. No longer is it appropriate to think of the physical person as the computer; instead, the term is more appropriately assigned to the machine. Moreover, until now, the two have been discrete entities. On the desk sits a machine – an object. At the desk sits a person – an agent.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

102 MAC c

Penerbit

: Berghahn Books., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

264 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781789200157

Klasifikasi

102

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Miscellany of Philosophy

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