Future in an Uncanny Valley
What in the science of aesthetics tends to be called "Uncanny Valley" is a phenomenon linked to the inner discomfort felt by man in the face of things that seem to have some human semblance, but which in reality are only vaguely close to resembling it. Reasoning through a less circumscribed imaginary version of this phenomenon and the feeling of despondency generated by it, the book in question chooses to group and present a dose of general existential pessimism, reasoning on a human, global, social, and non-human scale. All of this, told through a variegated Cyberpunk aesthetic, which adapts well to the climate of human discomfort that is intended to be encapsulated through the digital manuscript in question.
What in the science of aesthetics tends to be called "Uncanny Valley" is a phenomenon linked to the inner discomfort felt by man in the face of things that seem to have some human semblance, but which in reality are only vaguely close to resembling it.
Reasoning through a less circumscribed imaginary version of this phenomenon and the feeling of despondency generated by it, the book in question chooses to group and present a dose of general existential pessimism, reasoning on a human, global, social, and non-human scale. All of this, told through a variegated Cyberpunk aesthetic, which adapts well to the climate of human discomfort that is intended to be encapsulated through the digital manuscript in question.
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Perception takes up the infinitely repeated perturbations
that are heat and light, and contracts them
into relatively unvarying sensations: trillions of
external oscillations crystallize in our eyes, in a
fraction of a second, into a vision of color. Is this
then a matter of mental conception? To form a
general idea is to abstract from diverse and changing
things a common aspect that does not change,
or which at least offers our activity a solid handhold.
The constancy of our attitude, the sameness
of our potential or virtual reaction to the multiplicity
and variability of represented objects — there
you have the hallmark of the generality of ideas.
Is this, finally, a matter of understanding? That
would simply be to find links, to establish stable
relations among passing facts, to draw out laws
— a task that admits of perfection, insofar as the
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