Cybernetic Revelation - Deconstructing Artificial Intelligence - a new book by JD Casten

Dec. 1, 2012 - PRLog -- Post Egoism Media presents a new book:

Cybernetic Revelation - Deconstructing Artificial Intelligence

by JD Casten


Cybernetic Revelation explores the dual philosophical histories of deconstruction and artificial intelligence, tracing the development of concepts like "logos" and the notion of modeling the mind technologically from pre-history to contemporary thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Steven Pinker.  The writing is clear and accessible throughout, yet the text probes deeply into major philosophers seen by JD Casten as "conceptual engineers."

Philosophers covered include: Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Philo, Augustine, Shakespeare, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, Joyce, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Chomsky, Zizek, Pinker, Dennett, Hofstadter, Stiegler + more; with special chapters on: AI's history, Complexity, Deconstructing AI, Aesthetics, Consciousness + more...

JD Casten has spent over 20 years researching this monumental work.  His previous books include a poetry novella, Post-Digital Revelation (2007), an art book, The Rhythm of the Chill (2008), and he has edited the artworks of Ana Voog in Ana Voog - Dreaming on Stage (2011) and Sara G. Umemoto in Samsara Gate: Digital Imaging by Sara G. Umemoto (2009).

Free PDF available at

http://casten.postegoism.net

772 pages - $17 softbound - ISBN: 978-0985480202