Description: Essays from some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers explore topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness, presenting a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul. Illustrations.
Review Quotes: "A tour de force of thinking around human and artificial intelligence, assembled at the beginning of the "AI winter" of the 1980s when interest and funding in the technology temporarily waned."--Harvard Gazette