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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.

Discognition

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What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers... Read more

    Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
    Publication Date: 17/03/2016
    ISBN13: 9781910924068, 978-1910924068
    ISBN10: 1910924067

    Number of Pages: 300

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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.

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