Discognition is a book by Steven Shaviro. Exploring how humans, machines, and images think and feel. What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the colour red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens, will we be able to understand what they say to us? Philosophers and scientists are still unable to answer questions like these. Perhaps science fiction can help. It inspires to create work that communicates through emotion, sensation, and imagination, not just information.

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