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Acknowledgments ix Introduction to the MIT Press Edition (2004) 1 Introduction (1984): The Evocativq Object 17 Part I Growing Up with Computers: The Animation of the Machine 1 Child Philosophers: Are Smart Machines Alive? 33 2 Video Games and Computer Holding Power 65 3 Child Programmers: The First Generation 91 4 Adolescence and Identity: Finding Yourself in the Machine 131 Part II The New Computer Cultures: The Mechanization of the Mind 5 Personal Computers with Personal Meanings 155 6 Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself 183 7 The New Philosophers of Artificial Intelligence: A Culture with Global Aspirations 219 8 I Thinking of Yourself as a Machine 247 9 The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture 279 Epilogue (2004): Changing the Subject and Finding the Object 287 Appendixes A On Method: A Sociology of Sciences of Mind 303 B Children's Psychological Discourse: Methods and Data Summary 313 Notes 323 Index 359