EXISTENCE, ORIGIN AND WEIRD TECHNOLOGY

What are we humans, and how did we become the high technology species? What would be our legacy? What is the ultimate meaning of life? Many of these questions are still waiting for full and complete answers and explanations.

For thousands of years humans have pondered the fundamental questions about origin, existence and reality, and also about mind, consciousness, communication and social issues. In this day and age when advancing technology is quickly transforming our societies and our ways of life, these questions are more important than ever, not only in the theoretical sense, but also in practice. We have to understand what has happened, and what is happening.

For the first time in the history, technology has given us powerful means to investigate the phenomena behind the ultimate questions. However, technology is only a tool; the thinking human is still required for the understanding of the world.

This book explores these curious topics, beginning from the origin of the Universe to the emergence of life; the evolution from cells to brains; the development of cognitive ability from perception and attention to reasoning and thinking; how we interact with other humans by means of love and emotion; to the creation of thinking machines by weird technology.

THIS BOOK presents novel views on these questions and provides explanations and possible answers in an easy-to-read style.

Contents:

• Existence, Origin and Other Weird Questions
• The Origin of the Universe
• The Emergence of Life
• From Cells to Brains
• Sensing, Perception and Attention
• Memory and Learning
• Thinking, Intelligence and Inner Speech
• Love and Other Emotions
• The Beautiful, Unexpected and Funny
• Consciousness
• Altered States of Consciousness
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Consciousness
• The Rise of the Technological World
• Weird Science
• The Bare New World
• Time, Eternity and Infinity
• Seeking for Deliverance

Readership: For the general reader in search for answers to questions pertaining to human existence, progress, and purpose.

Key Features:

• This book presents systematic novel views on questions surrounding the fast-moving advances in technology around us and their impact on our lives, and provides explanations and possible answers to these questions in an easy-to-read way
• This book also presents an explanation of consciousness and suggests a philosophical ultimate meaning for life