TheAgeofSpiritualMachines_WhenComputersE.epub

Table of Contents ABOUT THE AUTHOR Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements PART ONE - PROBING THE PAST CHAPTER ONE - THE LAW OF TIME AND CHAOS CHAPTER TWO - THE INTELLIGENCE OF EVOLUTION CHAPTER THREE - OF MIND AND MACHINES CHAPTER FOUR - A NEW FORM OF INTELLIGENCE ON EARTH CHAPTER FIVE - CONTEXT AND KNOWLEDGE PART TWO - PREPARING THE PRESENT CHAPTER SIX - BUILDING NEW BRAINS ... CHAPTER SEVEN - ... AND BODIES CHAPTER EIGHT - 1999 PART THREE - TO FACE THE FUTURE CHAPTER NINE - 2009 CHAPTER TEN - 2019 CHAPTER ELEVEN - 2029 CHAPTER TWELVE - 2099 EPILOGUE: TIME LINE HOW TO BUILD AN INTELLIGENT MACHINE IN THREE EASY PARADIGMS GLOSSARY NOTES SUGGESTED READINGS WEB LINKS INDEX Praise for The Age of Spiritual Machines The Age of Spiritual Machines “ranges widely over such juicy topics as entropy, chaos, the big bang, quantum theory, DNA computers, quantum computers, Godel’s theorem, neural nets, genetic algorithms, nanoengineering, the Turing test, brain scanning, the slowness of neurons, chess playing programs, the Internet—the whole world of information technology past, present, and future. Thi......