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»Es scheint, als kenne ich alle Pflanzen dieses Landes, aber niemals ihre Wurzeln« 

»Sabres« heißen auf Hebräisch Kaktusfrüchte, die zwar außen stachelig sind, innen aber mit ihrem süßen Fruchtfleisch überraschen. Genauso sehen sich viele der in Israel geborenen Juden selbst: Ihre Vorfahren haben die Wüste Palästinas nicht nur besiedelt, sondern das Land kultiviert, so meinen sie. Doch immer mehr dunkle Farben mischen sich in dieses Bild, seitdem der jüdische Staat als Besatzerstaat auftritt. Wie ist es, in einem Land aufzuwachsen, in dem die jüdische...

When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community. The world has changed since then. Today it is clear that "good old-fashioned AI," based on the idea of using symbolic representations to produce general intelligence, is in decline (although several believers still pursue its pot of gold), and the focus of the Al community has shifted to more complex models of the mind. It has also become more common for AI researchers to seek out and...

Semiotic Margins analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces. By examining resources often positioned on the side-line of mainstream semiotic accounts, this study raises the question of what counts as part of language and communication and why.

Beginning with the more established nonverbal resources of communication, four major themes of modalities of meaning are covered. The investigation of music and space looks at how semiotic systems in classical music interact. Using children's books, the...

In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.

"Invention"--the word Bach and his contemporaries used for the musical idea that is behind or that generates a composition--emerges as an invaluable key in Dreyfus's analysis. Looking at important pieces in a range of...

"What constitutes human excellence?" and "What is the best way to live a life?" These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was...