期刊名称：Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1091-8264
出版年度：2007
卷号：11
期号：01
出版社：Digital Library and Archives,Virginia Tech
摘要：Scientists and engineers who extensively use the term “nan-machine” are not always aware of the philosophical implications of this term. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of nan-machine through a distinction between three major paradigms of machine. After a brief presentation of two well-known paradigms - Cartesian mechanistic machines and Von Neumann’s complex and uncontrolled machines – we will argue that Drexler’s model was mainly Cartesian. But what about the model of his critics? We propose a third model - Gilbert Simondon’s notion of concrete machines – which seems more appropriate to understand nan-machines than the notion of “soft machines”. Finally we review a few strategies currently used to design nan-machines, in an effort to determine which paradigm they belong to.
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