Contents

0. Preface to the German Edition

1. Dilemmas

2. Two Evolutions

Introduction
Similarities
Differences
First Cause
Several Naive Questions

3. Cosmic Civilizations

Formulation of the problem
Formulation of the method
Statistics of cosmic civilizations
Metatheory of miracles
The uniqueness of Man
Intelligence: chance or necessity?
Hypotheses
Votum separatum
Perspectives

4.    Intellectronics

Return to earth
The megabit bomb
The big game
Myths of science
The intelligence amplifier
The black box
On the ethics of homeostates
The dangers of electrocracy
Cybernetics and sociology
Belief and information
Experimental metaphysics
Beliefs of electrobrains
The spirit in the machine
Problems with information
Doubts and antinomies

5.    Prolegomena to omnipotence

Before chaos
Chaos and order
Scylla and Charybdis, i.e., on moderation
The silence of the Designer
Insanity with a method
A new Linneus, i.e., on systematics
Models and reality
Plagiarisms and creations
The area of imitology

6.    Phantomology

The basics of phantomology
The phantomatic machine
Marginal and central phantomology
The limits of phantomology
Cerebromatics
Teletaxation and phantoplication
Personality and information

7.    The creation of worlds

Introduction
Information growing
Language engineering
Engineering of transcendence
Cosmogonic engineering

8.    Pasquill on the evolution

Introduction
Reconstruction of the species
The construction of life
The construction of death
The construction of consciousness
Error based constructions
Bionics and cybernetics
Through the eyes of the Designer
The reconstruction of Man
Cyborgization
The autoevolutionary machine
Extrasensory phenomena

Summary

Appendix

References

Epilog: Twenty years later...
 

 Sources

• Polish: S. Lem "Summa Technologiae", Wydanie czwarte poszerzone, Wyd. Lubelskie, Lublin 1984. ISBN 83-222-0269-5
• German: S. Lem "Summa Technologiae", suhrkamp taschenbuch 678, Erste Auflage, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag 1981. ISBN 3-518-37178-9