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The past thirty years have presented many great challenges to our conceptions of science and technology and even of man himself. This fact is closely linked to the spread of computer technology and the power of that technology in improving our capacity to investigate not only natural phenomena but even human and social processes.

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Negrotti, M. (1991). Alternative Intelligence. In: Negrotti, M. (eds) Understanding the Artificial: On the Future Shape of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1776-6_4

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