Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Part I Dreaming of Electric Sheep 1
1 The birth of the modern mind 3
2 Life in the Bush of Ghosts 19
3 The mechanical Turk 28
4 Loving the alien 48
5 Prometheus unbound 60
6 The return of the gods 74
Part II The Mind Problem 89
7 A blueprint for a universe 95
8 Minds without bodies 110
9 La Resistance 132
10 Peering into the mind 154
11 The cybernetic brain 172
Part III ADA in Wonderland 193
12 'All Cretans are liars' 195
13 The program 217
14 From Bletchley Park to Google Campus 232
15 Machines that think 254
16 Darwin at the edge of chaos 280
Epilogue: The future of humanity 304
Timeline: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence 318
Notes 322
Acknowledgements 348
Index 350