Description
What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens, will we be able to understand what they say to us? Philosophers and scientists are still unable to answer questions like these. Perhaps science fiction can help. In Discognition, Steven Shaviro looks at science fiction novels and stories that explore the extreme possibilities of human and alien sentience.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Détails du livre
Format
Kindle
Pages
249 pages
Langue
Anglais
Publié
avr. 19, 2016
Éditeur
Repeater
Éditions
2 éditions
ISBN-10
1910924075
ISBN-13
9781910924075