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All Too Human

From the June/July 2008 Print Edition

Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines by Steve Talbott O’Reilly, 281 pages, $22 .99 As Francis Crick (he of Watson and Crick) put it, “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.” According to Rodney Brooks, a robotics researcher at MIT, “We, all of . . . . Continue Reading »