Virtuality and humanity: virtual practice and its evolution from pre-history to the 21st Century / Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig.
Lehman-Wilzig, Sam N.
2021
QA76.9.H85
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Title Virtuality and humanity: virtual practice and its evolution from pre-history to the 21st Century / Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig.
Author Lehman-Wilzig, Sam N.
ISBN 9789811665264 (electronic bk.)
9811665265 (electronic bk.)
9811665257
9789811665257
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6526-4
Imprint Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-16-6526-4 doi
Call Number QA76.9.H85
Dewey Decimal Classification 006.801
Summary This is a pioneering study of virtuality through human history: ancient-to-modern evolution and recent expansion; expression in many fields (chapters on Religion; Philosophy, Math, Physics; Literature and the Arts; Economics; Nationhood, Government and War; Communication); psychological and social reasons for its universality; inter-relationship with "reality." The book's thesis: virtuality was always an integral part of humanity in many areas of life, generally expanding over the ages. The reasons: 1- brain psychology; 2- virtuality's six functions escape from boredom to relieving existential dread. Other questions addressed: How will future neuroscience, biotech and "communications" affect virtuality? Can/should there be limits to human virtualizing? Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig (PhD, Harvard U.) is Professor Emeritus of Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he chaired its Political Science Department and also its School of Communication. He also served as Chairman of the Israel Political Science Association.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 18, 2022).
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Introduction
Defining Virtuality
Virtuality and/in the Brain
Religion & the Supernatural
Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics & Cosmology
Music, Literature & the Arts
Economics
Community & Nationhood, Government, War
Communication To/With/By the Masses
Virtuality's Expansion in the Modern Era: Media and Society.

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