Muse In The Machine

Author : David Gelernter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781451603743
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse in the Machine written by David Gelernter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading mind in the world of artificial intelligence answers the provocative question: “Can we introduce emotion into the computer?” Can we introduce emotion into the computer? David Gelernter, one of the leading lights in artificial intelligence today, begins The Muse in the Machine with this provocative question. In providing an answer, he not only points to a future revolution in computers, but radically changes our views of the human mind itself. Bringing together insights from computer science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, and literary theory, David Gelernter presents what is sure to be a much debated view of how humans have thought, how we think today, and how computers will learn to think in the future.

Author : Mark Conroy
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209629
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muse in the Machine written by Mark Conroy and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A writer who simply panders to the public is seldom taken for an artist. An artist who cannot publish is seldom granted a career. This dilemma, the subject of Muse in the Machine, has been home to many authors of serious fiction since the eighteenth century. But it is especially pointed for American writers, since the United States never fostered a sustainable elite culture readership. Its writers have always been reliant on mass publicity's machinery to survive; and when they depict that machinery, they also depict that reliance and the desire to transcend its banal formulas. This book looks at artist tales from Henry James to don DeLillo's Mao II, but also engages more indirect expressions of this tension between Romantic individualism and commercial requirements in Nathanael West, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon. It covers the twentieth century, but its focus is not another rehearsal of "media theory" or word versus image. Rather, it aims to show how various novels "about" publicity culture also enact their authors' own dramas: how they both need and try to critique the "machine". In subject as well as approach, this study questions the current impasse between those who say that the aesthetic aspires to its own pure realm, and those who insist that it partakes of everyday practicality. Both sides are right; this book examines the consequences of that reality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Charles O. Hartman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572578
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Muse written by Charles O. Hartman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and — illustrated with sample computer-produced verses — traces the development of more advanced hardware and software. The central question about this cyber-partnership, Hartman says, "isn't exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting." He examines the effects of randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency on poetic composition, concluding that "the tidy dance among poet and text and reader creates a game of hesitation. In this game, a properly programmed computer has a chance to slip in some interesting moves."

Author : T. R. Hummer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342785
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse in the Machine written by T. R. Hummer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, race, politics, and conscience. In these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. Hummer writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the divided soul of his native American South, and the salving, transcendent practice of musicianship. Inevitably entwined with a personal or cultural component, Hummer's criticism is thus grounded in experience that is always familiar and often straight to the heart in its rightness. In one of those statements of "poetic purpose" that goes hand in hand with a residency, guest editorship, or lecture tour, Hummer once wrote that "poetry inhabits and enunciates an incommensurable zone between individual and collective, between body and body politic, an area very ill-negotiated by most of us most of the time. Our culture, with its emphasis on the individual mind and body, teaches us very little about how even to think about the nature of this problem. . . . E pluribus unum is a smokescreen: what pluribus; what unum? And yet this phrase is an American mantra, as if it explained something." This is a quintessential Hummer moment: a writer has just given himself a good reason to quit. What Hummer knows must happen next is what The Muse in the Machine is all about.

Author : David Hillel Gelernter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780020911609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse in the Machine written by David Hillel Gelernter and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Gelernter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857020830
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muse in the Machine written by David Gelernter and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading mind in the world of artificial intelligence answers the provocative question: "Can we introduce emotion into the computer?" Can we introduce emotion into the computer? David Gelernter, one of the leading lights in artificial intelligence today, begins "The Muse in the Machine" with this provocative question. In providing an answer, he not only points to a future revolution in computers, but radically changes our views of the human mind itself. Bringing together insights from computer science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, and literary theory, David Gelernter presents what is sure to be a much debated view of how humans have thought, how we think today, and how computers will learn to think in the future.

Author : Peter Viereck
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412813700
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strict Wildness written by Peter Viereck and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reviewer once called Peter Viereck's thought "not common sense but inspired, electric common sense." This volume of Viereck's selected essays on poetry and on history, written between 1938 through 2004, exemplifies this quality. Its main theme is suggested in Viereck's coined phrase "strict wildness," which suggests a balance between restraint (which by itself is staid and rigid) and passion (which by itself is incoherent). Frost called free verse tennis without the net. Viereck calls dead mechanical form "net without the tennis." Strict wildness, then, is spontaneity of feeling within strict organic form. The book explores questions of modernism and poetic craft with respect to American poetry. It discusses the controversy over Ezra Pound's politics and its relation to his poetics, and the nearly forgotten poet Vachel Lindsay. Viereck offers more general views on poetics, including the fruitful tensions between form and content, and the impact of modern technology on poetic expression. This book also discusses history and politics, and contains essays on McCarthyism, the Cold War, political conformity of the Left and Right, and issues of historiography and culture that define Viereck's highly individual, often critical brand of conservatism. In treating representative trends and figures in conservative thought, Viereck insists on clear awareness of what exists to conserve, what ought to be conserved, and why it should be conserved. In their range and originality, the writings brought together in Strict Wildness constitute an ideal introduction to Peter Viereck's literary and political thought. It will be of interest to literary scholars, intellectual historians, and political scientists.

Author : Mark Conroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814273258
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muse in the Machine written by Mark Conroy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Henderson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109180
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A to Z of Computer Scientists written by Harry Henderson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than 100 scientists from around the world who made important contributions to the study of computer science, including Howard Aiken, Steve Case, Steve Jobs, and Ted Nelson.

Author : tomohisa fujii
Publisher : TOM PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom　Planet　Muse:Crisis of the earth in the 2050 year written by tomohisa fujii and published by TOM PUBLISHING. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As for the earth, in the 2040s, with the technology of the silicon carbide which was included in the coming to practical use step, to make energy saving moved ahead in entering, the beginning in the 2010s and the atomic control technique made leaping progress. In the 2040s, the human race desired in the atomic beneficence and was reaching the atomic times which are at the height of prosperity. On the way which returns to NASA after spending the New Year holiday in Japan on January 3rd in 2050, Takeru and Rumi of the undergraduate arrived at San Francisco Airport in America. They were space Pilot's egg. When thinking whether or not it felt the shake of the disastrous earthquake for several seconds while resting at the airport lobby, the huge explosive sound as earsplitting in the moment occurred. The airplanes to be flying in the air began to collide in the air. Moreover, at the ground, it occurred in the place where the crash among the trains and the crash among the cars result and surely, it took on an aspect as it sees hell. Moreover, 5 minutes later, the time speed of the earth had begun to decline gradually. The body that the influence of the extraordinary magnetic field began to shrink Naotsune in the sun gradually and to have come and for the distribution of the dark matter which exists at the interplanetary in the solar system which was keeping a balance to have begun a malfunction in the past As for the earthquake with mighty magnitude 9.0 which occurred in San Francisco on January 3rd in 2050, the nuclear reactor in all-America each place made a meltdown occur in the influence of the earthquake. After that, the shocking truth that the energy of the huge atomic-explosion did a leak to the superconductive cable which was set up around the all-America mainland through the power-transmission wire at the exploded nuclear power plant and that it caused the huge extraordinary magnetic field came to light. Most of the machines by which a computer system and an IC chip all over the world were embedded were cruelly, too, destroyed and all the information of the person, goods, the money had disappeared with the occurrence of the huge magnetic field this time. Moreover, in the whole world, the atomic dust of radioactivity material diffused, and the human race sheltered in the shelter which got ready in the underground depth and became the status that it cannot help being content with the cellar life. In the next day of the worldwide destruction which is due to the extraordinary magnetic field, the leader in the whole world gathered to the United Nations and reviewed the ideal way of the world in the future. As a result, it resulted in the conclusion that there is a alternative only in only 6 month grace's there being and immigrating to the other planet even if it estimates the shelter life of the human race long. It is an immigration to the twin earth. After that, the formation to seem a huge spacecraft by the distant sky in each main city in the whole world *of* showed the appearance. It is the group of the spaceman who did the appearance of the human race and the Tweedledum and Tweedledee that appeared at the ground from the inside of the formation of the spacecraft which was staying in the of metropolis sky. They called the earth in the twin planet which they live in Muses. It said that it came to sense the critical status of the earth this time via 200 pieces of Mannen and to extend a hand. Takeru and Rumi were chosen as the selection member and about 1 month as Team Member which scouts the other party, stayed at the earth in the twin planet. In the story of the Muses person, they seem equipped with the ability for the elasticity of the speed in the time to be able to be controlled, being free by the individual level. Therefore, it is possible for night to rejuvenate the age if it takes medicine for the rejuvenation, Powers, by 1 tablet if it can be chosen, being free and wanting to return in the young period. Likewise, if swallowing Powers for aging if wanting to return to the elderly, it is possible to be transformed into the elderly. Saying that it prepares for the interior of the body in the associating time machine feature in the past, the future at present In Muses which the genetic engineering cleared up by developing exceedingly and multiplying 10 pieces of Mannen all of the mysteries of the life-phenomenon, it is the society which can control a life perfectly. The love is a free love and the concept, the marriage, doesn't exist. Its copy can be created by making cultivate it while being in home using the life hatch equipment, too. A born double is already transplanted in the experience and the memory like him. Because the speed in the time can be controlled, there are not concepts such as the productivity and the value, the efficiency, too, in Muses and the one which becomes the root of the various evils such as the money, too, doesn't exist. However, in Muses, the population increased explosively and reached 100 times the earth, too. It is in the water resources and the source of protein in the rich earth that they aimed secretly. The terrestrial kind immigrated to Muses and was immersed to the life of the paradise in Muses but it had begun to notice a sense of incongruity. There, it was dense or the god of the omniscient and almighty evil in the galactic system at the four dimensions space boiled and was making the holocaust plan of the earth people-out progress.