An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

Contents
Frame
	1. Autonomy and Automaticity: On the Contemporary Question of Intelligence
Part One: The Automatic Life of Reason in Early Modern Thought
	2. Integration and Interruption: The Cartesian Thinking Machine
	3. Spiritual Automata: From Hobbes to Spinoza
	4. Spiritual Automata Revisited: Leibniz and Automatic Harmony
	5. Hume’s Enlightened Nervous System
Threshold: Kant’s Critique of Automatic Reason
	6. The Machinery of Cognition in the First Critique
	7. The Pathology of Spontaneity: The Critique of Judgment and Beyond
Part Two: Embodied Logics of the Industrial Age
	8. Babbage, Lovelace, and the Unexpected
	9. Psychophysics: On the Physio- Technology of Automatic Reason
	10. Singularities of the Thermodynamic Mind
	11. The Dynamic Brain
	12. Prehistoric Humans and the Technical Evolution of Reason
	13. Creative Life and the Emergence of Technical Intelligence
Prophecy: The Future of Extended Minds
	14. Technology Is Not the Liberation of the Human but Its Transformation...
Part Three: Crises of Order: Thinking Biology and Technology between the Wars
	15. Techniques of Insight
	16. Brains in Crisis, Psychic Emergencies
	17. Bio-Technicity in Von Uexküll
	18. Lotka on the Evolution of Technical Humanity
	19. Thinking Machines
	20. A Typology of Machines
	21. Philosophical Anthropology: The Human as Technical Exteriorization
Hinge: Prosthetics of Thought
	22. Wittgenstein on the Immateriality of Thinking
Part Four: Thinking Outside the Body
	23. Cybernetic Machines and Organisms
	24. Automatic Plasticity and Pathological Machines
	25. Turing and the Spirit of Error
	26. Epistemologies of the Exosomatic
	27. Leroi-Gourhan on the Technical Origin of the Exteriorized Mind
The Beginning of an End
	28. Technogenesis in the Networked Age
	29. Failures of Anticipation: The Future of Intelligence in the Era of Machine Learning
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index