Cyberspace In William Gibson's Neuromancer
In order to understand a complex concept such as Cyberspace that seems be out of harm’s way, I believe that is important to understand how we have developed ways of acting in the real world around us, how we experience and live in the real space and time and what it means. Otherwise the cyberspace will be inhospitable, useless and improbable understandable considering the parallelism with the real world.
In “Neuromancer” Gibson writes: “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by millions of legitimate operators… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding”.
This original and conceivable definition is lacking of an accurate knowledge about what was coming out as cyberspace but the concept and Gibson’s portrayal have had a profound influence. Why? Because this representation seemed to have the …show more content…
Hallucination means: a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind . Gibson used this world in his description of cyberspace, but is it properly corrected? If it is corrected, cyberspace will be a simple creation of mind without any real properties, but can we say that cyberspace is just the result of human imagination? I believe that cyberspace has a own particular reality that overcomes our traditional categories although it is always linked to the reality.
Certainly it is strongly linked to the human action, indeed it is “a blank, black void until an artificial context is introduced” . Before that, it was essentially naught, even placeless and indefinable. I consider humans as a “deus ex machina” in building cyberspace and now, this new reality can survive independently from the human knowledge or the use of it, rather it seems that we are not longer able to act outside of the
In “Neuromancer” Gibson writes: “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by millions of legitimate operators… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding”.
This original and conceivable definition is lacking of an accurate knowledge about what was coming out as cyberspace but the concept and Gibson’s portrayal have had a profound influence. Why? Because this representation seemed to have the …show more content…
Hallucination means: a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind . Gibson used this world in his description of cyberspace, but is it properly corrected? If it is corrected, cyberspace will be a simple creation of mind without any real properties, but can we say that cyberspace is just the result of human imagination? I believe that cyberspace has a own particular reality that overcomes our traditional categories although it is always linked to the reality.
Certainly it is strongly linked to the human action, indeed it is “a blank, black void until an artificial context is introduced” . Before that, it was essentially naught, even placeless and indefinable. I consider humans as a “deus ex machina” in building cyberspace and now, this new reality can survive independently from the human knowledge or the use of it, rather it seems that we are not longer able to act outside of the