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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... ultimate success . What distinguishes the system of the logical abstractions developed by the scholastics from those that scientists later developed was that the real world , for the medieval mind , was the invisible one : that toward ...
... ultimate success . What distinguishes the system of the logical abstractions developed by the scholastics from those that scientists later developed was that the real world , for the medieval mind , was the invisible one : that toward ...
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... ultimate ' particles elude direct observation : so what is innermost and inaccessible , even in physics , cannot be said to be unreal , much less may it be called wholly subjective , however well pre- served its secret . In short ...
... ultimate ' particles elude direct observation : so what is innermost and inaccessible , even in physics , cannot be said to be unreal , much less may it be called wholly subjective , however well pre- served its secret . In short ...
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... ultimate goals are now at last visible . First : he who creates a perfect automaton is in fact creating life , since , according to mechanistic doctrine , there is no essential difference between living organisms and machines , provided ...
... ultimate goals are now at last visible . First : he who creates a perfect automaton is in fact creating life , since , according to mechanistic doctrine , there is no essential difference between living organisms and machines , provided ...
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