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'''Sawyer, Andy. "'Dreaming Real': The Conquest of Psiberspace?"''' ''The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'' No. 36 = 9.4 (1998): 268-83. Special Issue "On Psi Powers." Ed. H. L. Drake.

On telepathy, mostly natural. Last section relevant, pp. 276-79, on technology-enable telepathy, and/or phenomena like telepathy. See for discussions of William Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', Pat Cadigan's ''[[Mindplayers]]'' and [[Synners]] — and note Sawyer on telepathy's becoming, in some cyberpunk and related SF, "part of the technological, rather than biological, sphere. What was thought of as a mental power becomes a physical one: another activity we can plug into through a gadget." In such works, the "ambiguity between 'mental' and 'physical' collapses" (277). For the background debate, see [[Descartes, Réne (mechanism: cosmological, biological)]] under Background here, and, for one convenient source, the Wikipedia article.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind–body_problem]




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