
The Intelligent Universe
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- 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
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