Athena is associated with craft, weaving, strategy and intelligent production.She is not primarily the goddess of machines.She represents something more fundamental:the intellig...
With Hephaestus, myth moves from intelligent making toward artificial agency.His workshop contains self-moving devices and artificial attendants.The question changes:Can we make...
The Chinese Liezi tells of the artificer Yan Shi presenting King Mu with a human-like artificial performer.It walks. It sings. It performs.When its behavior becomes disturbingly...
