What Matter Feels: Consciousness, Energy and Physics (How Science can Explain Minds)

Politics & Social Sciences

Pepperell, Robert

Philosophy

IRM Editions

<p>Pepperell (an artist and author of The post-human condition ) and Punt (a filmmaker who has previously researched 19th century technology) believe the "digital age" paradigm being applied to the new century has too many intellectual restrictions in its reductionist, on-off logic. Instead, they propose the metaphor of a living "postdigital" membrane to describe the dynamic and unpredictable flow between art, computing, philosophy, and science. "The power of the membrane metaphor," they write, "is its dual and contradictory function: like a transparent wall, it both connects and divides." They employ the metaphor here to explore how our understandings of imagination, technology, and human desire are changing in whatever one chooses to call this new era. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

The Postdigital Membrane: Imagination, Technology and Desire

Punt, Michael

Social Sciences

Intellect Ltd

The Post Human Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain

Intellect L & D E F A E

A provocative contribution to our understanding of this  turbulent period of human evolution. The authors  discuss the history of technological development, its likely future trajectory, and the imperatives driving human effort and imagination. Although the technological revolution seems, in a few short years, to have infiltrated every aspect of our lives, the authors of this book dispute the accepted wisdom that we are living in a Digital Age. They argue that the digital paradigm is absolutely inadequate for representing the continuous reality of life.

The Postdigital Membrane

Post-Human Condition

Computers & Technology

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