An immediate simulation of consciousness would by-pass speech in a kind of massive extrasensory perception, just as global thermostats could by-pass those extensions of skin and body that we call houses. Such an extension of the process of consciousness by electric simulation may easily occur in the 1960s
Understanding Media, 1964, MIT/Routledge edition, p 130
Year: 1964
Compiled by William Kuhns
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