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is the capacity of mind to become its own environment (i.e. To generalize itself in symbols, to increasingly intervene in nature, to act upon itself through its own abstractions).

a term that I employ without religious echo to designate the capacity of mind to generalize itself in symbols, intervene more and more into nature, act upon itself through its own abstractions and so become, increasingly, immediately its own environment' (93)

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is the idea that five-hundred years of humanism may be coming to an end as the human form, desire, and representation are becoming unrecognizable.

We need first to understand that the human form including desire and all its external representations may be changing radically, and thus must be re-visioned. We need to understand that five hundred years of humanism may be coming to an end, as humanism transforms itself into something that we must helplessly call posthumanism (Hassan 1977:212).'

is the notion that the languages of imagination and the languages of science have crossed.

'the languages of imagination and the languages of science have crossed in certain epochs and certain great minds of the past' (1977:207). Science and imagination are thus agents of change their interplay as modes of representation and transformation, being vital performing principles in culture and consciousness (Hassan, 1977:208).

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