Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae: Cybernetics and Machine Knowing?

摘要

It is impossible, as I wrote above, to do justice to all the varied themes addressed by Lem in the ST. He has important things to say about language, especially the language of chromosomes and he goes do far as to say that it is superior to the language of the brain. I hope nevertheless that the above outline is sufficient to justify its consideration as a significant part, if nothing else, of the history of ideas. I note, how Lem attempts even a brief, serious analysis of telepathy, psychokinesis, and clairvoyance. (He finally discards the alleged evidence on evolutionary grounds, that is, telepathy is such an efficient method of information transfer that if possible, it should be widespread in nature.).