Technology Review

The Mind of the Machine

Phillip Morrison

With each age of seemingly magical machines that simulate aspects of life, the question of why life is different from non-life returns on a new level. The ancients' simulations of purposeful motion were magic, until man came to understand that life meant more than the ability to move. In an age of computers, what shall we say if machines come to think?

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Tags: ai history

Type: Article

Publisher: MIT

Volume: 1973

Number: 1

Note: Published in January, 1973

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