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Postscript: Art, Science and the Future of Human Consciousness

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The story of this book has been about the present and the past. It has also been about the gulf between what we have called (in the conventional and convenient but perhaps over-simplifying shorthand) ‘The Two Cultures’. I should like to end with a brief glimpse into the future and to speculate about an increasing convergence between the ‘useful’ sciences and the ‘useless’ arts.

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  1. Raymond Tallis, ‘The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction’, in Raymond Tallis, Theorrhoea and After (forthcoming)

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  2. Friedrich Holderlin, To the Fates. The lines are translated by Michael Hamburger as follows: for once I lived like gods, and it suffices.

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Tallis, R. (1995). Postscript: Art, Science and the Future of Human Consciousness. In: Newton’s Sleep. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379244_11

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