Sentience: The Cost of Knowing - Softcover

Walter, Dwayne

 
9781506915647: Sentience: The Cost of Knowing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1506915647 ISBN 13: 9781506915647
Verlag: First Edition Design Publishing, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Sentience: The Cost of Knowing examines the psychological and existential burden of reflective awareness. Rather than celebrating intelligence or consciousness as unqualified goods, the book asks what it means to live inside a mind capable of memory, foresight, moral judgment, and self-recognition.

Across a series of restrained, tightly argued chapters, the work explores how awareness complicates comfort, how intelligence outpaces meaning, and how knowing more does not necessarily lead to living better. It considers sentience not as an achievement, but as a condition—one that carries responsibility, unease, and irreducible tension.

This book offers no consolations, prescriptions, or final answers. It does not argue that awareness is worth its cost. It simply accounts for that cost, and leaves the reader to sit with what remains.

Dwayne Walter is a Canadian writer whose work explores history, language, cognition, and the long arc of human thought. He is the author of several books, including works on Russian civilization, China’s civilizational continuity, and human awareness. Sentience: The Cost of Knowing reflects his interest in the psychological and existential dimensions of reflective consciousness. He lives and writes internationally.

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Verlag
First Edition Design Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1506915647
ISBN 13 
9781506915647
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
24
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