Imaginary Magnitude

'''Lem, Stanislaw. Imaginary Magnitude.''' Trans. Marc E. Heine of Wielkosc urojona [1973], supplemented by two pieces from Golem XIV [1981]. San Diego: Harcourt, 1984.

Golem XIV is a sentient AI computer that lectures on personhood, freedom of choice, and individuality. A second lecture by the computer focuses on the movement of humans between the poles of logic and antilogic and the necessity of humans' inventing "primal authority" to reduce the amount of freedom which the intellect bestows. Rev. Frank H. Tucker, FR #74 (Dec. 1984): 27, source for the quotation, and this entry.