Existence Origin And Weird Technology Exploring Humanity S Ultimate Questions
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Existence Origin And Weird Technology Exploring Humanity S Ultimate Questions
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Author : Pentti O Haikonen
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2022-10-21
Existence Origin And Weird Technology Exploring Humanity S Ultimate Questions written by Pentti O Haikonen and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-21 with Science categories.
What are we humans, and how did we become the high technology species? What would be our legacy? What is the ultimate meaning of life? Many of these questions are still waiting for full and complete answers and explanations.For thousands of years humans have pondered the fundamental questions about origin, existence and reality, and also about mind, consciousness, communication and social issues. In this day and age when advancing technology is quickly transforming our societies and our ways of life, these questions are more important than ever, not only in the theoretical sense, but also in practice. We have to understand what has happened, and what is happening.For the first time in the history, technology has given us powerful means to investigate the phenomena behind the ultimate questions. However, technology is only a tool; the thinking human is still required for the understanding of the world.This book explores these curious topics, beginning from the origin of the Universe to the emergence of life; the evolution from cells to brains; the development of cognitive ability from perception and attention to reasoning and thinking; how we interact with other humans by means of love and emotion; to the creation of thinking machines by weird technology.THIS BOOK presents novel views on these questions and provides explanations and possible answers in an easy-to-read style.
The Vital Question
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Author : Nick Lane
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2015-04-23
The Vital Question written by Nick Lane and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-23 with Science categories.
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all? This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.
Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970-06
Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-06 with categories.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
The Fifth Miracle
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Author : P. C. W. Davies
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999
The Fifth Miracle written by P. C. W. Davies and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Science categories.
Explains our current knowledge about life's origins, focusing on recently discovered "superbugs" which may have arrived here on asteroids, and arguing that life grew from primitive information-processing systems.
God Human Animal Machine
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Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2022-07-12
God Human Animal Machine written by Meghan O'Gieblyn and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Popular Science
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-08
Popular Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with categories.
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
The Advocate
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-08-14
The Advocate written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-14 with categories.
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Why Does The World Exist
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Author : Jim Holt
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2012-07-17
Why Does The World Exist written by Jim Holt and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Philosophy categories.
In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
The Dawn Of Everything
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Author : David Graeber
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-11-09
The Dawn Of Everything written by David Graeber and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Social Science categories.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Backpacker
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-09
Backpacker written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09 with categories.
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.