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The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem by Peter Swirski
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First published January 1, 2006
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April 12, 2017
Very good essay on Lem's Summa Technologica and his views on information and machine evolution. Lem's essay "Smart Robots"heads up the collection and discusses the idea of machine intentionality as also perhaps to be achieved via an evolutionary process rather than by explicit design.
October 19, 2017
This book was recommended by the famous host LEUNG Man-tao, he talked about lem's novel Solaris and said that professor swirski is the well-known Lem scholar, he recommended this book to anyone who is interested in Lem's idea and works, because it's easy to understand but with profound content.
January 16, 2018
Leading scholars examine the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris.
November 6, 2018
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May 5, 2009
Collections of essays on Lem's work. The first essay, which was most interesting, was actually written by Lem. The others were so, so. The essay on movies based on Lem's books helped me find an old Czech movie based "Magellan Nebula" - that I recall seeing back when I was little (the movie title is "Ikarie XB-1").
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