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Summa Technologiae
Volume 40
Taschenbuch von Stanislaw Lem
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780816675777
ISBN-10: 0816675775
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lem, Stanislaw
Übersetzung: Zylinska, Joanna
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 228 x 151 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Stanislaw Lem
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2014
Gewicht: 0,592 kg
Artikel-ID: 105555957
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780816675777
ISBN-10: 0816675775
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lem, Stanislaw
Übersetzung: Zylinska, Joanna
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 228 x 151 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Stanislaw Lem
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2014
Gewicht: 0,592 kg
Artikel-ID: 105555957
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