How Long to Read Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction by William S. Haney

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content.Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision.

How long is Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction?

Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction by William S. Haney is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction?

Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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