Organisms, or organized, living, systems. What's their origin? Why and how did they evolve? The Amazing Journey of Reason analyses the evolution of complex structures in the universe -from the subatomic particles after the Big Bang onwards- in order to understand the emergence of today's interconnected society. Artificial Intelligence, it concludes, is just the final step of a journey which started with DNA, itself the first Information and Communication Technology devised by nature on planet earth. What we are living today is the formation of the distributed nervous system of a metaorganism, in which human beings are the cells. A reassuring environment for us, but one where each individual will count increasingly less. A hugely complex, world-wide organism which makes Homo, while more communicans, also increasingly less sapiens.
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- Title
- The Amazing Journey of Reason
- Subtitle
- from DNA to Artificial Intelligence
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author(s)
- Mario Alemi
- Published
- 2019-12-07
- Edition
- 1
- Format
- eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
- Pages
- 129
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 3030259617
- ISBN-13
- 9783030259617
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Book Homepage
- Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
Preface Skipping Math Acknowledgements Contents Chapter 1: Life, Energy and Information What Is Life? The Decay Towards Equilibrium Energy Extraction Requires Information Defining Information Information Storage Requires Energy Storing Information Chapter 2: From the Big Bang to Living Cells Intelligent Systems Ex-Nihilo Energy and Information The Emergence of Complexity Life Without Selection The Startups of Life Amino Acids – The Entrepreneurs of Life The Secret of Life Evolution Through Learning Artificial Neural Networks and DNA Collaboration and Eukaryotes The Importance of Scientific Revolutions Chapter 3: From Complex Organisms to Societies Intelligence Needs Energy Sleep, Death and Reproduction The Limits of Unicellular Organisms From Interaction to Cognitive Processes Nervous System or the Forgotten Transition Origin of Neurons First Brains and Shallow Neural Networks Societies and Natural Selection Insects and Intelligent Societies The Social Body Chapter 4: The Human Social Brains Why a More Powerful Brain? The Primates’ Brain What Makes a Homo The Anatomy of Language Agriculture and Cognitive Social Networks Empires and Networks The Expensive-Class Hypothesis Chapter 5: The Human Meta-Organism The Evolution of Communication in Homo sapiens More Communicans than Sapiens Communications Technologies and Topologies Internet Companies On Regulating the Private Sector The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence Appendix 1: More on Networks and Information Physicists Don’t Like Networking Abby Normal Distributions Networks and Power The Emergence of Small-world Networks Entropy of Networks Barabasi-Albert small-world networks Why Power Law Appears in Networks Code snippet: entropy of scale-free networks Appendix 2: Math and Real Life Two Scientists Playing Roulette Complexity in Numbers Appendix 3: How Artificial Neural Networks Work References
