Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains by Catherine Mal

Description: Morphing Intelligence by Catherine Malabou, Carolyn Shread Acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our present-day view. She emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine have become uncertain. Author Biography Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London, and of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her many books include What Should We Do with Our Brain? (2008); Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction (Columbia, 2009); and Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality (2016).Carolyn Shread is lecturer in French at Mount Holyoke College and teaches translation studies at Smith College. Her translations include several works by Catherine Malabou. Table of Contents Translators Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Mètis in the Era of Google TranslateAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. g: Intelligence and Genetic Fate2. The "Blue Brain"3. Like a Pollock PaintingConclusionPostscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our NarcissismNotesIndex Review In this remarkable book Catherine Malabou focuses on the transformations of "intelligence" as it moves from genetics to epigenetics to automatism. Historically grounded, philosophically astute, and engagingly written, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in intelligence—artificial and natural—and in contemporary configurations of what counts as human. -- N. Katherine Hayles, author of Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive NonconsciousCatherine Malabou is one of the rare philosophers who seriously engages contemporary biological research in her explorations of human experience. In this book, she turns her attention to the core question of intelligence, and with spectacular results. At stake is the very future of human thought, and Malabou is led to reflect on machine intelligence for the first time, generating singular insights. As ever, Malabous prose is precise and elegant, deftly expressed in Carolyn Shreads fluid translation. -- David Bates, coeditor of Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural SubjectMorphing Intelligence contains significant new developments in Malabous ongoing work at the intersections of philosophy and the sciences. She moves from her groundbreaking theoretical reflections on neuroplasticity and epigenetics to a philosophical confrontation with the various challenges posed by todays emerging forms of artificial intelligence. Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed. -- Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism Hegel, iek, and Dialectical MaterialismHowever, the emergence of radically new forms of intelligence cannot be denied anymore. Morphing Intelligence thus makes us repeat with a sense of urgency Malabous original question: what should we do with our brain? * The Wire *[Malabous] prose is precise, her research carefully articulated, and her conclusions realistic yet hopeful. -- N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University * Critical Inquiry *In Morphing Intelligence, we see Catherine Malabous unique ability to mend empirical studies and neuroscience with biopolitics, Hegelian dialectics, and Kantian transcendentalism, weaving an elaborate . . . arachnean matrix. * Chiasma * Review Quote Morphing Intelligence contains significant new developments in Malabous ongoing work at the intersections of philosophy and the sciences. She moves from her groundbreaking theoretical reflections on neuroplasticity and epigenetics to a philosophical confrontation with the various challenges posed by todays emerging forms of artificial intelligence. Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed. Details ISBN0231187378 Author Carolyn Shread Pages 224 Publisher Columbia University Press Series The Wellek Library Lectures Translator Carolyn Shread ISBN-10 0231187378 ISBN-13 9780231187374 Language English Format Paperback Year 2021 Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Translated from French NZ Release Date 2021-04-13 US Release Date 2021-04-13 Publication Date 2021-04-13 UK Release Date 2021-04-13 Subtitle From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains DEWEY 128.3 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2021-04-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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