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William Sims Bainbridge

God from the Machine

Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition

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God from the machine (deus ex machina) refers to an ancient dramatic device where a god was mechanically brought onto the stage to save the hero from a difficult situation. But here, William Sims Bainbridge uses the term in a strikingly different way. Instead of looking to a machine to deliver an already known god, he asks what a computing machine and its simulations might teach us about how religion and religious beliefs come to being. Bainbridge posits the virtual town of Cyburg, population 44,100. Then, using rules for individual and social behavior taken from the social sciences, he models a complex community where residents form groups,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7591-0744-1
  • EAN: 9780759107441
  • Produktnummer: 2172476
  • Verlag: Altamira Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 188 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 282 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 282

Über den Autor


William Sims Bainbridge is director of the Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics Program at the National Science Foundation, as well as adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author or editor of over 20 books including The Future for Religion, A Theory of Religion, and the Berkshire Encyclopedia Of Human-Computer Interaction.

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