The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... living human beings ; though many properties that the organism actually shares with other physical bodies can be handled with equal effectiveness on Kepler's principles . Both Kepler and Galileo held that organisms cannot , so to say ...
... living human beings ; though many properties that the organism actually shares with other physical bodies can be handled with equal effectiveness on Kepler's principles . Both Kepler and Galileo held that organisms cannot , so to say ...
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... living phenomena reacting within a living environment , becomes so complex that it can only be reproduced and apprehended intuitively in the act of living , since , at least in man , it in- cludes mind and the infra- and ultra ...
... living phenomena reacting within a living environment , becomes so complex that it can only be reproduced and apprehended intuitively in the act of living , since , at least in man , it in- cludes mind and the infra- and ultra ...
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... living organism , for it lent itself to more accurate objective description . What remained indescribable by this method was the dynamic , multifunc- tional living organism . The realization that organic forms have produced a model for ...
... living organism , for it lent itself to more accurate objective description . What remained indescribable by this method was the dynamic , multifunc- tional living organism . The realization that organic forms have produced a model for ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accepted achieved activities actually already ancient authority automatic automation became become beginning brought century civilization collective communication complex continued culture demands Descartes destruction direct economy effect effort energy environment equally established existence experience exploration fact final forces functions further future give human idea improvements increase industrial institutions intelligence invention knowledge later least less limited living machine man's mass material means mechanical megamachine megatechnics merely method military mind mode moral nature necessary never objective observed once operation organic original past perhaps physical possible power system practical present production progress proved reality remained result scientific scientists seemed sense single social society space subjective success sufficient symbolic taken technical thought tion turn ultimate United universal whole world picture York