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The Amazing Journey of Reason : From DNA to Artificial Intelligence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alemi, Mario.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Computer Science Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Skipping Math
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Life, Energy and Information
  • What Is Life?
  • The Decay Towards Equilibrium
  • Energy Extraction Requires Information
  • Defining Information
  • Information Storage Requires Energy
  • Storing Information
  • Chapter 2: From the Big Bang to Living Cells
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Ex-Nihilo Energy and Information
  • The Emergence of Complexity
  • Life Without Selection
  • The Startups of Life
  • Amino Acids - The Entrepreneurs of Life
  • The Secret of Life
  • Evolution Through Learning
  • Artificial Neural Networks and DNA
  • Collaboration and Eukaryotes
  • The Importance of Scientific Revolutions
  • Chapter 3: From Complex Organisms to Societies
  • Intelligence Needs Energy
  • Sleep, Death and Reproduction
  • The Limits of Unicellular Organisms
  • From Interaction to Cognitive Processes
  • Nervous System or the Forgotten Transition
  • Origin of Neurons
  • First Brains and Shallow Neural Networks
  • Societies and Natural Selection
  • Insects and Intelligent Societies
  • The Social Body
  • Chapter 4: The Human Social Brains
  • Why a More Powerful Brain?
  • The Primates' Brain
  • What Makes a Homo
  • The Anatomy of Language
  • Agriculture and Cognitive Social Networks
  • Empires and Networks
  • The Expensive-Class Hypothesis
  • Chapter 5: The Human Meta-Organism
  • The Evolution of Communication in Homo sapiens
  • More Communicans than Sapiens
  • Communications Technologies and Topologies
  • Internet Companies
  • On Regulating the Private Sector
  • The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
  • Appendix 1: More on Networks and Information
  • Physicists Don't Like Networking
  • Abby Normal Distributions
  • Networks and Power
  • The Emergence of Small-world Networks
  • Entropy of Networks
  • Barabasi-Albert small-world networks
  • Why Power Law Appears in Networks.
  • Code snippet: entropy of scale-free networks
  • Appendix 2: Math and Real Life
  • Two Scientists Playing Roulette
  • Complexity in Numbers
  • Appendix 3: How Artificial Neural Networks Work
  • References.

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