Dialogs (Lem)

Dialogs on the Atomic Resurrection, the Impossibility Theory, Philosophical Benefits of Cannibalism, Sadness in a Test Tube, Cybernetic Psychoanalysis, Electrical Metempsychosis, Evolutionary Feedbacks, Cybernetic Eschatology, Personalities of Electrical Networks, Perversity of Electrobrains, Eternal Life in a Box, Construction of Geniuses, Epilepsy of Capitalism, Governance Machines, Design of Social Systems — is a collection of philosophical essays by Stanisław Lem.

The first dialog, about the "atomic resurrection" machine, was translated into English (from German) by Frank Prengel.

[2] The essays were written in the most optimistic days of cybernetics, when infinite possibilities were expected from it.

[3] At the same time, it was only a year after cybernetics stopped being described as "bourgeois pseudoscience" in the Eastern Bloc.

Dialog I is about logical, ethical and philosophical problems related to the possibility of recreating a person as a perfect atom-wise copy.