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Nature versus Naturoid

Nature versus Naturoid MATERIAL WITNESS news & views Can there be metameric devices Negrotti wants to develop something in the same way that there are akin to a philosophy of the artificial, metameric colours? The latter are analogous to (but different from) that colours that look identical to the eye expounded by Herbert Simon in his but have different spectra. Might 1969 book e S Th ciences of the Artici fi al we make devices that, although (MIT Press, Massachusetts). made up of different components, To this end, Negrotti has coined perform identically? the term ‘naturoid’ to describe “all Of course we can, you might say. devices that are designed with natural A vacuum tube performs the same objects in mind, by means of materials Ph ILIP BALL function as a semiconductor diode. and building procedures that differ Clocks can be driven by springs or from those that nature adopts.” A calls this the ‘essential performance’, batteries. But the answer may depend naturoid could be a robot, but also a which itself also implies a selected on how much similarity you want. synthetic-polymer-based enzyme, an ‘observation level’ — we might Semiconductor diodes will survive a artificial-intelligence program or even make a comparison http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Nature versus Naturoid

Nature Materials , Volume 8 (1) – Jan 1, 2009

Nature versus Naturoid

Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views Can there be metameric devices Negrotti wants to develop something in the same way that there are akin to a philosophy of the artificial, metameric colours? The latter are analogous to (but different from) that colours that look identical to the eye expounded by Herbert Simon in his but have different spectra. Might 1969 book e S Th ciences of the Artici fi al we make devices that, although (MIT Press, Massachusetts). made up of different components, To this...
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
ISSN
1476-1122
eISSN
1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat2346
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Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views Can there be metameric devices Negrotti wants to develop something in the same way that there are akin to a philosophy of the artificial, metameric colours? The latter are analogous to (but different from) that colours that look identical to the eye expounded by Herbert Simon in his but have different spectra. Might 1969 book e S Th ciences of the Artici fi al we make devices that, although (MIT Press, Massachusetts). made up of different components, To this end, Negrotti has coined perform identically? the term ‘naturoid’ to describe “all Of course we can, you might say. devices that are designed with natural A vacuum tube performs the same objects in mind, by means of materials Ph ILIP BALL function as a semiconductor diode. and building procedures that differ Clocks can be driven by springs or from those that nature adopts.” A calls this the ‘essential performance’, batteries. But the answer may depend naturoid could be a robot, but also a which itself also implies a selected on how much similarity you want. synthetic-polymer-based enzyme, an ‘observation level’ — we might Semiconductor diodes will survive a artificial-intelligence program or even make a comparison

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Nature MaterialsSpringer Journals

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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