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Discognition Steven Shaviro

Discognition By Steven Shaviro

Discognition by Steven Shaviro


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Summary

Science fiction embodies difficult, abstract philosophical and scientific concepts in characters and narratives. Discognition therefore provides an accessible account of ideas about sentience.

Discognition Summary

Discognition by Steven Shaviro

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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Winner of the University of California (Riverside) 2017 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program Book Award

About Steven Shaviro

Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. His books include Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003), Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), The Universe of Things (2014), and No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism (2014). He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory.

Additional information

GOR008691628
9781910924068
1910924067
Discognition by Steven Shaviro
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Watkins Media Limited
2016-03-17
300
N/A
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