...This chapter explores cybernetics in relation to materialism and idealism. It begins by discussing Gotthard Günther’s The Consciousness of Machines, in which he describes a genealogy of mankind’s new self-relationship via technology. All the dualisms in a row, as old as the great...

...This chapter explores interstellar travel from the perspective of Gotthard Günther. Time travel serves as outer limit of long distance. In other words or worlds, it offers a model for the mode of transportation—beyond distance—that interstellar travel necessarily requires. Günther contemplates...

...This chapter explores the question of consciousness as a transferrable or reproducible attribute from the perspective of Gotthard Günther. In 1953, Günther published an article in the pulp science fiction magazine Startling Stories titled “Can Mechanical Brains Have Consciousness...