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Human preferences toward things in nature, while refined through experience and culture, are hypothetically the product of biological evolution. For example, adult mammals (especially humans) are generally attracted to baby mammal faces and find them appealing across species. The large eyes and small features of any young mammal face are far ...
World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 West German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Shot in 16 mm, it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries.
Wireheading, like other forms of brain alteration, is often treated as dystopian in science fiction literature. [5]In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, a "wirehead" is someone who has been fitted with an electronic brain implant known as a "droud" in order to stimulate the pleasure centers of their brain.
Robin Pierce of Starburst rated the film 3 stars out of 5. [2] Michael Pementel of Bloody Disgusting gave the film a score of 3 out of 5, writing, "Compared to a lot of other films in the subgenre, Wired Shut proves to be an effective home invasion thriller with heart." [3]
The Neanderthal Parallax is a trilogy of novels written by Robert J. Sawyer and published by Tor.It depicts the effects of the opening of a connection between two versions of Earth in different parallel universes: the world familiar to the reader, and another where Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent hominid.
A newly sapient Pioneer 9 is one of the main characters of 17776.. The story takes place on a future Earth where humans stopped dying, aging, and being born in 2026. All social ills were subsequently eliminated, and technology preventing humans from any injury was developed.
The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been restored to life. The novels (and a few shorter works) explore interactions of resurrected individuals from many different cultures and time periods.
Human knowledge is based on stories and the human brain consists of cognitive machinery necessary to understand, remember and tell stories. [23] Humans are storytelling organisms that both individually and socially, lead storied lives. [24] Stories mirror human thought as humans think in narrative structures and most often remember facts in ...