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爱德华·阿什福德·李：共同进化:人类与机器交织在一起的未来 The Coevolution : The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines

基本信息

Series:The MIT Press

Format:Hardback 384 pages, 51 b&w photos; 102 Illustrations, unspecified

Publisher:MIT Press Ltd

Imprint:MIT Press

ISBN:9780262043939

Published:21 Apr 2020

Weight:702g

Dimensions:162 x 235 x 33 (mm)

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书籍简介

数字技术是否应该被视为一种新的生命形式，与我们共享生态系统并共同进化?是人类定义了技术，还是技术定义了人类?在这本书中，爱德华·阿什福德·李认为，我们对技术轨迹的控制比我们想象的要少。它塑造了我们，就像我们塑造了它一样。把技术看作是达尔文共同进化的结果，而不是自上而下的智能设计的结果，这可能更有道理。理查德·道金斯(Richard Dawkins)有句名言:一只鸡是一只鸡蛋孵出另一个鸡蛋的方式。人类是计算机制造另一台计算机的方式吗?要理解这个问题，需要深入了解进化是如何运作的，人类与计算机有何不同，以及技术发展的方式与我们星球上新生命形式的出现有何相似之处。李提出了将数字生物视为有生命的理由，然后提出了反对意见。我们人类用我们的大脑所做的不仅仅是计算，而数字系统所做的——以光速传送、备份和恢复——对人类来说可能永远不可能。他认为，相信我们只是计算，是“数据主义者”的信念，在科学上是站不住脚的。数字生物依赖人类，人类也依赖数字生物。比起人类在地球上灭绝，更有可能的是文化和技术的持续共生共同进化。

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us? Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design. Richard Dawkins famously said that a chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. Is a human a computer's way of making another computer? To understand this question requires a deep dive into how evolution works, how humans are different from computers, and how the way technology develops resembles the emergence of a new life form on our planet. Lee presents the case for considering digital beings to be living, then offers counterarguments. What we humans do with our minds is more than computation, and what digital systems do-be teleported at the speed of light, backed up, and restored-may never be possible for humans. To believe that we are simply computations, he argues, is a "dataist" faith and scientifically indefensible. Digital beings depend on humans-and humans depend on digital beings. More likely than a planetary wipe-out of humanity is an ongoing, symbiotic coevolution of culture and technology.

作者简介

爱德华·阿什福德·李(Edward Ashford Lee)是加州大学伯克利分校电子工程和计算机科学杰出教授(荣誉退休)，在那里他经营着一家专注于工业网络物理系统的研究中心iCyPhy。他是《柏拉图与书呆子》(MIT出版社)和其他书籍的作者。

Edward Ashford Lee is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he runs iCyPhy, a research center focused on industrial cyber-physical systems. He is the author of Plato and the Nerd (MIT Press) and other books.