文档介绍：The Posthuman Condition
Consciousness beyond the brain
Robert Pepperell
THE POSTHUMAN CONDITION
The Posthuman Condition
Consciousness beyond the brain
Robert Pepperell
First published in hardback in 2003 in Great Britain by
Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK.
First published in hardback in 2003 in USA by
Intellect Books, ISBS, 5804 . Hassalo St, Portland,
Oregon 97213-3644, USA.
The Post-Human Condition was first published in 1995, and reprinted in 1997.
Images and text copyright © 2003 Robert Pepperell.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
Consulting Editor: Masoud Yazdani
Copy Editor: Holly Spradling
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Electronic ISBN 1-84150-883-7 / ISBN 1-84150-048-8
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cromwell Press, Wiltshire.
ALL Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors:
1. That Man has two real existing principles: Viz. a Body & a Soul.
2. That Energy, call’d Evil, is alone from the Body; & that Reason, call’d
Good, is alone from the Soul.
3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
But the following Contraries to these are True:
1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call’d Body is a portion of
Soul discern’d by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or
outward circumference of Energy.
3. Energy is Eternal Delight.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1793
Humanists saw themselves as distinct beings, in an antagonistic relationship with their surroundings.
Posthumans, on the other hand, regard their own being as embodied in an extended technological world.
The Posthuman Manifesto
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