February 8, 2002
Cyborgs and Robots: Religion for 'Nonbelievers'
The turn of the millennium found Western societies experiencing a curious reversal in the roles of art and religion. Whereas religion up to the Renaissance provided the content for most high visual art and literature, art and entertainment in our secular era have provided both the content for new religions and the moral framework for those who practice no religion at all. Even as serious literature and art are conventionally supposed to provide a sense of "transcendence," invented cosmogonies
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