Timeline for Which books by Lem involve Artificial Intelligence?
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| May 18, 2020 at 22:11 | comment | added | DukeZhou | @Buzz Just re-read and, although it's true the Solarian intelligence could well be algorithmic (computational) in nature, it does seem natural as opposed to artificial. BUT, the point you make about the visitors does seem valid--artificial constructs created by the ocean. | |
| May 18, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | @Solaris Certainly not. They are just the stuff dredged from people's inner space. The black woman, the weird entity with the straw hat ... they are literally "visitations". | |
| May 18, 2020 at 9:15 | answer | added | Incnis Mrsi | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 13:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 1:29 | comment | added | Buzz | The visitors in Solaris might be artificial intelligences. It's not clear, but that's the point. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 22:05 | answer | added | DukeZhou | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 2:06 | answer | added | b_jonas | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 19:16 | comment | added | DukeZhou | @Randal'Thor Really this is for research purposes. The mythology of AI is a subject I've been thinking about for a while. Lem has a status that seems to exceed most writers of speculative fiction, so I believe his work to be important in this regard. I get that the forum has rules, but it would be nice to utilize it for research on this subject. That said, I have some ideas on how to ask more suitable questions on this subject. | |
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| Jul 11, 2017 at 10:58 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | Book recommendation questions have been off-topic here since 2011. List questions are off-topic only if open-ended; finite, well-scoped list questions are OK. So I suggest you edit this question to make it sound less like a recommendation question ("appreciate any pointers") and more like a finite-list question (e.g. "which of Lem's books involve AI"). Then it's more likely to be reopened. | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 10:50 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jul 11, 2017 at 10:34 | comment | added | b_jonas | I think this question is on-topic because it's not an open-ended list, but a finite list you can complete. If you only count the fiction works, then Stanisław Lem hasn't even written that many books, all his stories easily fit on a short bookshelf. A complete list isn't easy to compile, but within the realm of possibilities for Sci Fi SE. | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 17:22 | comment | added | DukeZhou | @Mithoron Thanks for commenting. I'm not yet familiar with this aspect of Lem's fiction, and thus the question must be broad. Regarding "what is AI", I think that's not an issue. I would also be interested in his non-fiction, but will likely save that for another to-be-closed question. (Regarding this not being a "forum", that may be the case but it's also not a particularly useful site in terms of research or practical work, as opposed to the original intent of Stack as a resource for engineers. It's a shame the Humanities sites are more concerned with parameters than usefulness. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 22:42 | comment | added | Mithoron | Well, technically this isn't a forum and your question not too precise. What to call artificial intelligence? what does it mean play a role; big role, small or only mentioned? Also he wrote lots of non-fiction, not only novels and short stories. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 18:55 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Apr 5, 2017 at 18:17 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | Lem does have a ton load of books, but it doesn't necessarily mean the list has to be long. Also, @DukeZhou, you could try asking something like "How many of Lem's AI stories share a common universe?", which would give you more or less the same answer. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | Jeff Zeitlin | @Gallifreyan - Long. Consider, for example, only the list of SF books with the name "Asimov" in the byline. "Heinlein" is another ... prolific ... name. | |
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| Apr 5, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | I'm not sure if this should be closed. After all, how long can a list of books by one author be? | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 17:44 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 5, 2017 at 17:28 | history | asked | DukeZhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |