Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Volume 51 Contributor(s): Wilson, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517906598 ISBN-13: 9781517906597 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $110.88 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Science | Cognitive Science |
Dewey: 111.85 |
Series: PostHumanities |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.95 lbs) 272 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A new speculative ontology of aesthetics Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of "epistemaesthetics," which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents. |