James N. Gardner
Hardcover | Pages: 269 pages Rating: 4.01 | 81 Users | 11 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos |
| Author | : | James N. Gardner |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 269 pages |
| Published | : | January 19th 2007 by New Page Books |
| Categories | : | Science. Artificial Intelligence. Nonfiction. Technology |
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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.Identify Books Toward The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
| Original Title: | The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos |
| ISBN: | 1564149196 (ISBN13: 9781564149190) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 81 Users | 11 ReviewsEvaluate About Books The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
Very good book; not an easy read though.Very imaginative and thought provoking.
This is the best speculative science book I've ever read. It really made a lot of sense to me as scientist/engineer. Perhaps reality is a hybrid of "the matrix" and the theories postulated in this book. Are we in a simulation that is calculating something? If so, what? What do we (humanity) have to do it? This book tries to tackle the biggest of the big questions.
A great, well-written and well documented, speculation about how life and intelligence may help to build the laws of physics in our (ans possibly other) universe(s).
This is a mind-blowing book that presented me with lots of great insights and stimulated quite a bit of thinking during and after reading.
I was skeptic of his credentials, but he put the entire scope of future trends of science, biology and intelligence into coherent worldview of the evolving cosmic organism. We are all partaking in the continual evolution of God (the universal organism) towards perfection with the intent (which I admit is a stretch) to produce progeny universes. Everyone should read this.
This book is fun to read because Gardner presents some of the wildest ideas in modern physics. As for his own "selfish-biocosm" hypothesis. Its just that sort of speculation you might indulge in after having a couple of beers, but it isnt science, and Gardners hypothesis isnt more believable than contemporary religious beliefs.
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