Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006) was the best-known science fiction author writing outside the English language. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Joanna Zylinska is professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media and The Ethics of Cultural Studies.
Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006) was the best-known science fiction author writing outside the English language. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Joanna Zylinska is professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media and The Ethics of Cultural Studies.
Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006) was the best-known science fiction author writing outside the English language. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Joanna Zylinska is professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media and The Ethics of Cultural Studies.
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Contents Translator’s Introduction. Evolution May Be Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts, but It’s Not All That Great: On Lem’s Summa Technnologiae Joanna Zylinska Summa Technologie 1. Dilemmas 2. Two Evolutions Similarities Differences The First Cause Several Naïve Questions 3. Civilizations in the Universe The Formulation of the Problem The Formulation of the Method The Statistics of Civilizations in the Universe A Catastrophic Theory of the Universe A Metatheory of Miracles Man’s Uniqueness Intelligence: An Cccident or a Necessity? Hypotheses Votum Separatum Future Prospects 4. Intelectronics Return to Earth A Megabyte Bomb The Big Game Scientific Myths The Intelligence Amplifier The Black Box The Morality of Homeostats The Dangers of Electrocracy Cybernetics and Sociology Belief and Information Experimental Metaphysics The Beliefs of Electric Brains The Ghost in the Machine The Trouble with Information Doubts and Antinomies 5. Prolegomena to Omnipotence Before Chaos Chaos and Order Scylla and Charybdis: On Restraint The Silence of the Designer Methodological Madness A New Linnaeus: About Systematics Models and Reality Plagiarism and Creation On Imitology 6. Phantomology The Fundamentals of Phantomatics The Phantomatic Machine Peripheral and Central Phantomatics The Limits of Phantomatics Cerebromatics Teletaxy and Phantoplication Personality and Information 7. The Creation of Worlds Information Farming Linguistic Engineering The Engineering of Transcendence Cosmogonic Engineering 8. A Lampoon of Evolution The Reconstruction of the Species Constructing Life Constructing Death Constructing Consciousness Error-based Constructs Bionics and Biocybernetics In the Eyes of the Designer Reconstructing Man Cyborgization The Autoevolutionary Machine Extrasensory Phenomena Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Contents Translator’s Introduction. Evolution May Be Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts, but It’s Not All That Great: On Lem’s Summa Technnologiae Joanna Zylinska Summa Technologie 1. Dilemmas 2. Two Evolutions Similarities Differences The First Cause Several Naïve Questions 3. Civilizations in the Universe The Formulation of the Problem The Formulation of the Method The Statistics of Civilizations in the Universe A Catastrophic Theory of the Universe A Metatheory of Miracles Man’s Uniqueness Intelligence: An Cccident or a Necessity? Hypotheses Votum Separatum Future Prospects 4. Intelectronics Return to Earth A Megabyte Bomb The Big Game Scientific Myths The Intelligence Amplifier The Black Box The Morality of Homeostats The Dangers of Electrocracy Cybernetics and Sociology Belief and Information Experimental Metaphysics The Beliefs of Electric Brains The Ghost in the Machine The Trouble with Information Doubts and Antinomies 5. Prolegomena to Omnipotence Before Chaos Chaos and Order Scylla and Charybdis: On Restraint The Silence of the Designer Methodological Madness A New Linnaeus: About Systematics Models and Reality Plagiarism and Creation On Imitology 6. Phantomology The Fundamentals of Phantomatics The Phantomatic Machine Peripheral and Central Phantomatics The Limits of Phantomatics Cerebromatics Teletaxy and Phantoplication Personality and Information 7. The Creation of Worlds Information Farming Linguistic Engineering The Engineering of Transcendence Cosmogonic Engineering 8. A Lampoon of Evolution The Reconstruction of the Species Constructing Life Constructing Death Constructing Consciousness Error-based Constructs Bionics and Biocybernetics In the Eyes of the Designer Reconstructing Man Cyborgization The Autoevolutionary Machine Extrasensory Phenomena Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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