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Notizie Di Libri E Cultura Del Corriere Della Sera
Fear of digital world is similar to the fear of the print press
Credo che molte persone siano terrorizzate perché il mondo in cui sono cresciute non esiste più. Succede sempre quando c’è un cambiamento radicale. All’inizio della rivoluzione della stampa, che consentì la riproduzione meccanica di testi e l’educazione di massa, c’erano le…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Describing the ant means describing its environment
The more detailed the description of our ant’s behavior becomes, the more it has to include such matters as density, humidity, and temperature of the surrounding atmosphere, the types and sources of its food, the social structure of its own species, and that of neighboring…
Life must be lived as a game
It comes, then, to this: that to be “viable,” livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game—and the “must” here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on…
Forcing what is acceptable only unforced
the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force. This, in turn, arises from the definition of man as an independent agent—in the universe but not of it—saddled with…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Person is a functional category
That principle is that ‘person’ is not a biological category, but a functional one. Any creature, or even machine, that has the conscious capacities of a person is a person, irrespective of its species. That is why we recognise as people characters in science-fiction films who…