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Article: Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman.(Book review)
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- Extrapolation
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- June 22, 2007
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William S. Haney II. Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Series #2. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006 $30.24 paper.
William S. Haney's Cyberculture, Cyborgs, and Science Fiction argues that "the first-person experience of pure consciousness" (vii) is under threat due to biotechnology and the ideal of the posthuman. Using a number of science fiction texts to illustrate its arguments, the book contends that "the posthuman condition may undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content, by forcibly overextending and jeopardizing ...