Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Mechanical Mind -- 2 Charles Babbage and the Emergence of Automated Reason -- 3 D'Arcy Thompson: A Grandfather of A-Life1 -- 4 Alan Turing's Mind Machines -- 5 What Did Alan Turing Mean by ''Machine''? -- 6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics -- 7 From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby -- 8 Gordon Pask and His Maverick Machines -- 9 Santiago Dreaming -- 10 Steps Toward the Synthetic Method: Symbolic Information Processing and Self-Organizing Systems in Early Artificial Intelligence Modeling -- 11 The Mechanization of Art -- 12 The Robot Story: Why Robots Were Born and How They Grew Up -- 13 God's Machines: Descartes on the Mechanization of Mind -- 14 Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making It More Heideggerian -- 15 An Interview with John Maynard Smith -- 16 An Interview with John Holland -- 17 An Interview with Oliver Selfridge -- 18 An Interview with Horace Barlow -- 19 An Interview with Jack Cowan -- About the Contributors -- Index.