Morphing intelligence : from IQ measurement to artificial brains / Catherine Malabou ; translated by Carolyn Shread.
Malabou, Catherine, author.
2019
BF431 .M37313 2019eb
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Title Morphing intelligence : from IQ measurement to artificial brains / Catherine Malabou ; translated by Carolyn Shread.
Author Malabou, Catherine, author.
Uniform Title Métamorphoses de l'intelligence. English
ISBN 9780231547239 (electronic book)
0231547234 (electronic book)
9780231187367
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 198 pages).
Call Number BF431 .M37313 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 153
Summary What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine have become uncertain.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
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Translator's Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Mètis in the Era of Google Translate
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. g: Intelligence and genetic fate
2. The "Blue Brain"
3. Like a Pollock painting
Conclusion
Postscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our Narcissism
Notes
Index

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