But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this "marvelously provocative" (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has become a metaphysical escape-hatch from a materialism that many people find increasingly dissatisfying. Cyberspace opens up a collective space beyond the laws of physics-a space where mind rather than matter reigns. This strange refuge returns us to an almost medieval dualism between a physical space of body and an immaterial space of mind and psyche.
| Autorius: | Margaret Wertheim |
| Leidėjas: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2000 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 336 |
| ISBN-10: | 0393320537 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780393320534 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Philosophy of science |
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