Learning from Machines, Seeing with a Thousand Eyes: On the Relevance of Russian Cosmism

N. F. Fedorov, “Gorizontal’noe polozhenie i vertikal’noe” (The horizontal position and the vertical), in Sochineniia (Works) (Mysl’, 1982), 516.

Ibid., 520.

V. S. Solov’ev, “Krasota v prirode” (Beauty in nature), in Sochineniia v 2 t. (Works in two volumes), vol. 2 (Mysl’, 1990), 378–79.

A. K. Gorskii, “Ogromnyi ocherk” (Large essay), in Sochineniia (Works) (Raritet, 1995) 212.

Ibid., 222.

Ibid., 238.

Ibid., 259.

Ibid., 259.

Solov’ev, “Krasota v prirode,” 371.

P. A. Florenskii, “Organoproektsiia” (Organ projection), in Russkii kosmizm: antologiia filososkoi mysli (Russian cosmism: an anthology of philosophical thought), eds. S. G. Semenova and A. G. Gacheva (Pedagogika-Press, 1993), 161.

K. E. Tsiolkovskii, “Monizm Vselennoi” (The monism of the universe), in Russkii kosmizm, 265.

K. E. Tsiolkovskii, “Zhivye sushchestva v kosmose” (Living beings in space), in Put’ k zvezdam (The way to the stars) (Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1960), 302.

Ibid., 306.