Meccanica è vita. Da Calvino alla robotica evolutiva

Abstract

Often the scientific innovations are better explained by literature than scientific essay. In the stories of writers they acquire an identity otherwise so forced to remain contradictory. This was the case of Italo Calvino and Primo Levi about “thinking machines” arrived on stage of the History of the late 20th century. In another perspective, this was also the case of another unusual observer of Cybernetics: Charles Darwin