Borges and Artificial Intelligence

An Analysis in the Style of Pierre Menard

Ema Lapidot (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

197 Seiten

1991
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-1376-1 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes the tight weave between literature and science found in Borges' writings. Of the many aspects of scientific thought found in Borges' work, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one even though the author was not aware of the existence of this technology. Borges discusses explicitly the mechanization of thoughts in some of his essays. Drawing on Borges' idea that it is the reader, and not the writer, who sets the meaning on a text, a contemporary reader finds that many concepts of AI technology are implicit in his short stories, ideas such as 'hardware', 'software', 'memory', 'program' and 'programmer', 'data', and so on. His essential skepticism echoes the skeptics of present-day AI scientists.

The Author: Ema Lapidot is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Russell Sage College, in Troy, New York. She researches Borges' writings from the vantage point of modern sciences and technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and cybernetics. She has also studied the thematic commonality between Borges and the Dutch graphic artist Escher. She received her Ph.D. from State University of New York at Albany. A Spanish edition of Borges and Artificial Intelligence is being published concurrently in Madrid, Spain.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1991
Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 11
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
ISBN-10	0-8204-1376-3 / 0820413763
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-1376-1 / 9780820413761
Zustand	Neuware