Table of Contents
Preface ix
Deep Past
1 Intelligence in the Universe: Or, Where Is Everybody? 3
2 The Origin of Everything 20
3 Enduring Entropy 34
4 The Evolution of Life and Biointelligence 46
5 Complexity and Emergence 62
6 The Coevolution of Humanity and Technology (Part 1) 76
Twenty-First Century
7 Chatbots and the Illusion of Awareness 97
8 The Next Milestones 114
9 Getting Emotional 134
10 What Makes a Mind? 150
11 The Path to Intelligence Augmentation 169
12 Hacking Human 2.0 187
13 The Birth of a Superintelligence 204
Deep Future
14 The Coevolution of Humanity and Technology (Part 2) 227
15 Cognitive Cloning, Uploading, and Digital Consciousness 245
16 A Multiplicity of Minds 264
17 Awakening the Universe 283
18 The Quest for Power 302
19 Life at the End of the Universe 321
Acknowledgments 335
Notes 339
Index 363