In this book, Future Minds, Richard Yonck
challenges our assumptions about intelligence — what it is, how it came to exist, and its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos.
Taking a Big History perspective — over the 14 billion years from the Big Bang to the present and beyond — he draws on recent developments in physics and complexity theory to explore the questions:
Why do pockets of increased complexity develop, giving rise to life, intelligence, and civilization?
How will it grow and change throughout this century, transforming technology and humanity?
As we expand outward from our planet, will we discover other forms of intelligence, or will we conclude we are destined to go it alone?
Any way we view it, the nature of intelligence in the universe is becoming a central concern for humanity. Ours. Theirs. And everything in between.
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