Languages are stuttering extensions of our five senses, in varying ratios and wavelengths. 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 b y 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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