The restless clock [electronic resource] : a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick / Jessica Riskin.

Introduction: Huxley's joke, or the problem of agency in nature and science
1. Machines in the garden
2. Descartes among the machines
3. The passive telescope or the restless clock
4. The first androids
5. The adventures of Mr. Machine
6. Dilemmas of a self-organizing machine
7. Darwin between the machines
8. The mechanical egg and the intelligent egg
9. Outside in
10. History matters.