TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alemi,Mario
TI  - The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Computer Science Series
SN  - 9783030259624
AV  - QA76.9.M35 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing AG
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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