The Intelligent Universe
AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
Published on 23. June 2023
425 pages
978-1-60163-965-3 (ISBN)
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What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. In The Intelligent Universe, James Gardner envisions a third dramatic alternative-a final state of the cosmos in which a highly evolved form of group intelligence engineers a cosmic renewal, the birth of a new universe.
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James Gardner, a well known and widely published complexity theorist, lives in Portland, Oregon. His first book, Biocosm, was selected as one of the ten best science books of 2003 by the editors of Amazon.com and was featured in major stories in TIME, U.S. News & World Report, Harper's, and National Geographic and other major publications. Gardner?s path-breaking scientific articles have appeared in Complexity (the scientific journal of the Santa Fe Institute), Acta Astronautica (the scientific journal of the International Academy of Astronautics), the International Journal of Astrobiology, and the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. He is a regular lecturer at prominent institutions around the world.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Chapter 1 - HITCHING A RIDE ON THE SOFTWARE OF EVERYTHING
- Stephen Wolfram and the Software of Everything
- Edward Fredkin and Digital Physics
- Seth Lloyd and the Cosmos as a Quantum Computer
- Hitching a Ride on the Cosmic Software
- Intelligent Design versus the Evolutionary Model of Software Creation
- From Lottery Tickets to Artificial Darwinism: The Amazing Journey of John Koza
- The Coming Fusion of Genetic Programming and Quantum Computation
- Chapter 2 - STAGES ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE'S WAY
- Soft Artificial Life
- Hard Artificial Life
- Wet Artificial Life
- The Top-Down Approach
- The Bottom-Up Approach
- Strong Artificial Life
- So What Is Life, After All?
- Chapter 3 - SINGULARITIES BEYOND SINGULARITIES
- The New Darwin: Ray Kurzweil
- Signs of a Secular Rapture
- Life Eternal (or at Least Until You Get Bored Out of Your Mind)
- Machines Begetting Machines
- The Emergence of Collective Consciousness
- The Future of History: Just One Singularity After Another
- Part II - EXTRATERRESTRIALS
- Chapter 4 - THE FERMI PARADOX REVISITED
- Chapter 5 - COLONIZING THE COSMOS AT LIGHT SPEED
- Chapter 6 - THE COSMIC MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
- The Biggest of the Big Questions
- Three Roads to a Bio-Friendly Cosmos
- Part III - THE EMERGING MIND OF THE COSMOS
- Chapter 7 - WILL RELIGION SURVIVE CONTACT?
- The Oddest of Bedfellows: Religion, ET, and Science, Oh My!
- Cosmotheology: A Religion for the Biological Universe
- Chapter 8 - THE UNIVERSE IS COMING TO LIFE
- Chapter 9 - ALPHA OMEGA
- Afterword
- Appendix A - THE PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AS BIOSIGNATURE: AN ANTHROPIC RETRODICTION ...
- Appendix B - COEVOLUTION OF THE COSMIC PAST AND FUTURE: THE SELFISH BIOCOSM AS ...
- Appendix C - THE SELFISH BIOCOSM: COMPLEXITY AS COSMOLOGY
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
