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Nihilism: The Emptiness of the Machine

Nihilism: The Emptiness of the Machine

Cancian, André
Cancian, André

Paperback

General Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN10: 1983046310
ISBN13: 9781983046315
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2018
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A bold philosophical defense of existential nihilism based on modern science.

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When we imagine a machine, the result is always something close to a mechanical system that works by itself. It doesn't bother us to think that it's nothing beyond that. But how do we feel when we imagine ourselves as a machine? Empty. We have the feeling that something is missing. And what is missing? What's there in a human that is missing in a machine? Illusion. The emptiness of the machine is the consciousness that our subjective world is a fiction; the consciousness that our humanity is a delirium, and that there's nothing behind what we are living. We are machines, and our consciousness is a dream of this machine. Nothing else. Absolutely nothing.

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Great. I cannot remember the last time I read something so interesting.

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