Artificial history of natural intelligence : thinking with machines from Descartes to the digital age

1. Autonomy and Automaticity: On the Contemporary Question of Intelligence Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 IV: 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

This book explores the relationship between autonomy and automaticity in human cognition and traces the evolution of thought from the seventeenth century to the present, examining how the body, nervous system, and brain are connected to technology. The book reveals how new ideas and experiences can reconfigure the connection between the body's automaticity and technical systems, while still allowing the mind to create autonomy. This new theorization of the human suggests that the human, dependent on technology, produces itself as an artificial automation without natural origin.