The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought

A leading mind in the world of artificial intelligence answers the provocative question: “Can we introduce emotion into the computer?”

Can we introduce emotion into the computer? David Gelernter, one of the leading lights in artificial intelligence today, begins The Muse in the Machine with this provocative question. In providing an answer, he not only points to a future revolution in computers, but radically changes our views of the human mind itself. Bringing together insights from computer science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, and literary theory, David Gelernter presents what is sure to be a much debated view of how humans have thought, how we think today, and how computers will learn to think in the future.

David GelernterDavid Gelernter is one of the leading figures in computer science today. He is associate professor of computer science at Yale University and creator of the landmark computer programming language called Linda, which made it possible to link computers together to work on a single problem. He has since emerged as one of the seminal thinkers in the field known as parallel computing.