Name: The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the age of Darwin (en Inglés)
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Author: Keith E. Stanovich
ISBN: 9780226771250

portada The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the age of Darwin (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Keith E. Stanovich

Año

2005

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

374

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0226771253

ISBN13

9780226771250

Categorías

Psicología cognitiva

The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the age of Darwin (en Inglés)

Keith E. Stanovich (Autor) · University Of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

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The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed scientists to the conclusion that, according to the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for replication. Richard Dawkins, for example, jolted us into realizing that we are just survival mechanisms for our own genes, sophisticated robots in service of huge colonies of replicators to whom concepts of rationality, intelligence, agency, and even the human soul are irrelevant. Accepting and now forcefully responding to this decentering and disturbing idea, Keith Stanovich here provides the tools for the "robot's rebellion," a program of cognitive reform necessary to advance human interests over the limited interest of the replicators and define our own autonomous goals as individual human beings. He shows how concepts of rational thinking from cognitive science interact with the logic of evolution to create opportunities for humans to structure their behavior to serve their own ends. These evaluative activities of the brain, he argues, fulfill the need that we have to ascribe significance to human life. We may well be robots, but we are the only robots who have discovered that fact. Only by recognizing ourselves as such, argues Stanovich, can we begin to construct a concept of self based on what is truly singular about humans: that they gain control of their lives in a way unique among life forms on Earth—through rational self-determination.