HUMNTIES 191R: What is Life? The History of a Question (HISTORY 242A, HISTORY 342A)
History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HUMNTIES 175: BELIEF-UNBEL
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