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Overview"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 organisms The emergence and evolution of the brain The emergence and evolution of societies (human and not) Possible evolution of our ""internet society"" and therole that Artificial Intelligence is playing" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mario AlemiPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783030259617ISBN 10: 3030259617 Pages: 113 Publication Date: 07 December 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Skipping Math 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 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 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 ReferencesReviewsAuthor Information"Mario holds a PhD in physics, with a passion for Artificial Intelligence, writing, and travelling. After 8 years of scientific research, mainly at CERN, Geneva, he graduated in International Journalism at City University in London. Thanks to that, he was able to fulfill his three passions for a few years –teaching Quantitative Methods at ESCP (Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris), shooting documentaries in Brazil, Yemen and India, writing for various publications (including the Economist and the Financial Times) and consulting with various companies on AI-related project. After developing recommendation algorithms for social networks in 2010, Mario came to the conclusion that the ""interconnection revolution"" is not just a business opportunity but a milestone in the evolution of human beings. With this in mind, together with a network of partners and collaborators, he set up a company named elegans specializing in AI. Mario, alone or with a team, has been responsible for the development of original algorithms for startups and public companies . He is often invited for talks to various AI/Machine Learning conference and he has more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, with more than 4,000 citations. Mario was featured by ""Il Sole 24 Ore"", ""La Repubblica"", ""Corriere Comunicazioni"", ""Business Insider""." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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