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The Dark Side of Being Human
Science fiction is our modern mythology, mythology for age of science. One of the great eternal questions is, what is a human being? We spend thousands of years believing that human beings were basically a divine creations. While we've gone through this massive cultural change, most people now have a very different sense of what a human being is. That science has shown us that we're like kind of fleshy pulpy machines. And it is very difficult to understand the meaning of that. It's something that science fiction has struggled with from the very beginning. So if you look at what's often credited as the first science fiction novel, frankenstein, a modern prometheus, by mary wol
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