The Experiment (A Review of 'Non Serviam,' by James Dobb)

Lem, Stanislaw. "The Experiment (A Review of 'Non Serviam,' by James Dobb)." Michael Kandel, trans. The New Yorker 24 July 1979: 26 f. Coll. A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books. New York: Harcourt, 1979. Rpt. The Mind's I, q.v. under Anthologies.

The nonexistent "Non Serviam" presents the life and philosophy of "personoids," mathematical analogs to humans; the personoids are contained in computers. SL may see the "personoid" condition as similar to the human condition.