The Amazing Journey of Reason: from DNA to Artificial Intelligence

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This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, but can we apply the same concepts to the evolution of aggregated matter –living matter included? The Amazing Journey analyzes the latest results in chemistry, biology, neuroscience, anthropology and sociology under the light of the evolution of intelligence, seen as the ability of processing information. The main strength of this book is using just two concepts used in physics –information and energy– to explain: The emergence and evolution of life: procaryotes, eukaryotes and complex organismsThe emergence and evolution of the brainThe emergence and evolution of societies (human and not)Possible evolution of our "internet society" and the role that Artificial Intelligence is playing Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Life, Energy and Information (Mario Alemi)....Pages 1-10 From the Big Bang to Living Cells (Mario Alemi)....Pages 11-28 From Complex Organisms to Societies (Mario Alemi)....Pages 29-44 The Human Social Brains (Mario Alemi)....Pages 45-62 The Human Meta-Organism (Mario Alemi)....Pages 63-80 Back Matter ....Pages 81-113