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  • MediaDB / «Do you exist, Mr. Jones? Stanislav Lem: download fb2, read online

    About the book: year / Cybernetics Company claims property rights to Harry Jones. His passion for car racing made Harry a cyborg: after each disaster, part of his body was replaced with a prosthesis. Including brains - expensive, of the highest quality, taken on credit... At the court hearing, Jones’s resourceful cyber-brain proves that it is worth its money: “Are we really living in the Middle Ages, when Shylock demanded a pound of his debtor’s meat?” - "Lie! You are a machine! - “Um... but... The summons is addressed to Mr. Harry Jones, Forty-fourth Street, New York.” An obvious legal paradox: the plaintiff, being a de facto machine, inherited the personality of Mr. Jones de jure…