Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman (Consciousness: Literature and the Arts 2) (Consciousness, Literature & the Arts)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: February 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789042019485
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Subjects & Themes - Human Figure; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Science Fiction & Fantasy
First sentence: While no theory of consciousness has achieved consensus in the interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies in the West, the one generally accepted by posthumanists as the most convincing holds that "To be conscious is to be conscious of something" (Pepperell 2003: 175).