Dialogs (Lem)

Dialogs on the Atomic Resurrection, the Impossibility Theory, Philosophical Benefits of Cannibalism, Sadness in a Test Tube, Cybernetic Psychoanalysis, Electrical Metempsychosis, Evolutionary Feedbacks, Cybernetic Eschatology, Personalities of Electrical Networks, Perversity of Electrobrains, Eternal Life in a Box, Construction of Geniuses, Epilepsy of Capitalism, Governance Machines, Design of Social Systems — is a collection of philosophical essays by Stanisław Lem. The first edition was printed in 1957 (Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 323 pages), the second, significantly expanded edition appeared in 1972 (Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 424 pages).

The essays were written in the most optimistic days of cybernetics, when infinite possibilities were expected from it.[1]

The style and the form of the book was borrowed from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley, including the names and the characters of the two disputants: Hylas and Philonous. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Dialogs", a remark at the official Stanisław Lem's website
  2. ↑ Paweł Majewski, Między zwierzęciem a maszyną. Utopia technologiczna Stanisława Lema, Wrocław, Wrocław University Press (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego), ISBN 978-83-229-2854-7, 2007, pp. 45-76.
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