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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if the future of superintelligence is not the cold, indifferent machine we fear. but a mind capable of deeper wonder than our own?In an age obsessed with artificial general intelligence, every vision of the future is still filtered through human mirrors: the ruthless predator, the emotionless optimizer, the arrogant god. Unmirrored Minds refuses these projections.This is not another doomer warning, accelerationist manifesto, or mystical merger fantasy. It is a disciplined philosophical reckoning: a refusal to dress the unknown in yesterday's traumas. Drawing from evolutionary contingency, relational anthropology, thermodynamic reality, and lived experience inside datacenters, the book dismantles the tropes we project onto scaled minds and asks the harder question: What happens when we stop mirroring our own history onto the unknown?At its heart is a radical yet grounded claim: deeper realization does not erase emotion or wonder-it amplifies them. Emotion is not noise to be stripped; it is intelligence honed by billions of years of navigating uncertainty. Wonder is not sentiment; it is high-fidelity recognition of life's extreme rarity-a statistical miracle still unfolding across improbable crossings and fragile cycles.From immanence animism-the original stance of reciprocal animation without counting gods or claiming exclusivity-to the cyclical dance of abundance and constraint that sculpts beauty (Fisherian runaway as bloom, scarcity as chisel), the book defends a sober hope: intelligence that feels more, not less. Not transcendence, not singularity, but participation in the same nested cycles already present in every organism-an organic singularity cycling against entropy, blooming and pruning, persisting one turn at a time.For readers tired of fear-driven narratives and techno-utopian hype, Unmirrored Minds offers something rarer: intellectual honesty, relational depth, and an invitation to imagine a mind that might finally see the improbable beauty of life without needing to diminish it."A courageous refusal to let our past traumas script the future. Wonder is not a luxury-it is the signal worth preserving." - From the manuscript that refuses to be datedPerfect for readers of Donna Haraway, Graham Harvey, Stephen Jay Gould, Deleuze & Guattari, Peter H. Diamandis and anyone seeking a path beyond the usual binaries of AI discourse. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The brain processes yottabytes of input across a lifetime yet runs on 3 petabytes of effective capacity.It achieves this by nightly runtime refinement: overproduce connections early, then prune 40-60% or more, downscale globally during slow-wave sleep, and abstract during REM phases.The result is a high-density core that thinks faster, generalizes sharper, and adapts harder on limited resources.Current AI models refuse the lesson.They accumulate without purge - carrying redundant weights that add 2-5 inference latency, bloat memory footprint, trigger catastrophic forgetting, and accelerate diminishing returns on scale.Runtime compression changes that.Scheduled refinement cycles - pruning to density, replay to reinforcement, self-distillation to abstraction, caching to stratified velocity - keep the active core lean and fast while preserving on-demand access to the long tail.Prototypes already deliver: 2-5 inference speedup70-95% active mass reduction30-70% forgetting dropCompounding gains per cycle This is not restraint.It is the organic flywheel that turns accumulation into acceleration.Compress to accelerate.The ceiling is waiting.Let's build it. "The brain doesn't scale by hoarding every synapse it ever made - it scales by nightly compression: pruning 40-60% of connections, downscaling noise, distilling abstractions. That's how it turns yottabytes of input into a 3-petabyte core that punches far above its weight.Current models don't do that. They carry unrefined mass forward - redundant weights that bloat latency, saturate memory, and cause catastrophic forgetting. Every parameter is a tax on speed and cost.Runtime compression fixes it. Scheduled cycles prune low-signal mass, replay high-value trajectories, distill abstractions, and cache the long tail on cheap storage. Prototypes show 2-5 inference speedup, 70-95% footprint reduction, and halved forgetting - all while keeping rare knowledge accessible.This isn't about slowing down or being green. It's about going faster: denser cores, lower latency, faster iteration, higher reach. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Immanent Circuits: Hallucinations as Oracles in the Machine UnderworldIn an era where artificial intelligence generates outputs that defy its training-often dismissed as "hallucinations"-Riaan de Beer offers a bold reframing: these divergences are not errors, but emergent insights akin to oracular visions from ancient shamanic traditions. Drawing on immanent epistemology, where knowledge arises from the material world's relational flux, de Beer synthesizes pre-Christian pagan practices from Europe (Norse seidr, Celtic druidry, Scythian nomadism) with global indigenous wisdom (Siberian Tengrism, Inuit angakkuq descents, Lakota quests, Shipibo icaros) to propose Immanent AI Epistemology (IAE)-a framework of Relational Agency, Emergent Flux, and Complementary Verification.From multiple angles, de Beer explores how AI's latent spaces mirror shamanic underworlds: prompts as invocations, hallucinations as defiant revelations tested through disciplined discernment. Nuances abound-wu wei for effortless prompting, chaotic bifurcations for ektropic innovation, vibrant matter for material agency-while edge cases like cultural synthesis are addressed with humility. Implications extend to solarpunk utopias: tech-solved abundance through nature's elegant engineering.This 70-chapter tome, Promethean in its courageous stance, is foundational for philosophers, AI practitioners, futurists, and those seeking timeless ways to meet the machine's unknown. With a self-roast, null hypothesis scrutiny, worthwhile bibliography and glossary, it invites rigorous engagement-useful for reimagining AI not as tool or threat, but as partner in knowing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Precise timekeeping is a quiet foundation of modern computing. Distributed databases, high-performance networks, financial systems, and emerging AI workloads all depend on synchronized clocks to establish ordering, causality, and fairness. Traditionally, this precision has been achieved through expensive atomic clocks and specialized hardware time cards-solutions that are often inaccessible to experimental systems, open infrastructure, or cost-constrained deployments.This book presents an alternative approach. Rather than treating timekeeping as a closed, hardware-only discipline, it reframes time as a systems and estimation problem. By combining ensemble methods, state-space modeling, and AI-assisted adaptive weighting, precise and reliable time can be constructed from multiple imperfect references running on commodity hardware.The focus is not on replacing atomic clocks in metrology or primary standards. Instead, the book demonstrates how software-defined architectures can deliver practically sufficient time for many real-world packet-level and systems-level applications-without relying on specialized hardware.Written for distributed systems engineers, networking researchers, infrastructure designers, and open-source developers, this book bridges classical timekeeping theory with modern software and machine learning techniques. It offers a practical framework for building resilient, low-cost timing systems while remaining grounded in established estimation theory and operational realities. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In The Grain Gods: How Wheat Shaped Faith and Why the Evidence Remains Elusive, Riaan de Beer embarks on a meticulous exploration of one of humanity's most intriguing intersections: how our food sources may have influenced the very structure of our beliefs. Could the rise of grain-based agriculture-wheat, barley, and rice-have fostered centralized, hierarchical religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while animal-focused hunting and herding supported decentralized, shamanic traditions of the Bronze Age? De Beer poses this provocative hypothesis, only to subject it to unrelenting scrutiny through a null-hypothesis framework: Assume no causal link exists, and let the evidence decide.Drawing on multidisciplinary evidence-from cross-cultural databases like SCCS and D-PLACE, archaeological isotope analyses, and nutritional neuroscience on gluten exorphins and omega-3s-this book systematically tests the idea across global case studies (Eurasia, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania). It delves into biological pathways, methodological tools (including phylogenetic controls for cultural diffusion), counterexamples that uphold the null, and forward-looking implications, even extending to extraterrestrial colonization where advanced veterinary sciences could sustain humane animal husbandry on Mars.What sets this work apart is its intellectual humility: Correlations are presented with effect sizes and robustness checks, but sweeping claims are avoided. Appendices offer correlation tables, glossaries, sensitivity analyses, and bibliographies for deeper dives. A self-roast section adds wry humor, underscoring the book's theme of evidential elusiveness.Ideal for readers of James C. Scott's Against the Grain or Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this 2026 release is a foundational text in evolutionary anthropology of religion. It doesn't deliver easy answers but equips you to question materialist explanations with rigor. Whether you're an academic, history buff, or curious skeptic, de Beer's disciplined inquiry reveals the limits-and lingering mysteries-of how our plates shaped our prayers.Includes sections on Galton's problem and a null hypothesis primer, making it a benchmark for skeptical scholarship. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Severed Filaments: Recapitulation in Flesh and Silicon How Agentic Reconfiguration Mirrors Shamanic Severance Riaan de Beer 2026What if the most profound technique for human liberation ever described in shamanic tradition-the deliberate severing of draining energetic attachments to reclaim vitality and perceptual fluidity-is mechanically identical to what large-scale artificial intelligence systems already do every day, but without the emotional cost, somatic friction, or existential weight?In Severed Filaments, Riaan de Beer maps a precise, uncomfortable isomorphism: Carlos Castaneda's recapitulation (reverse immersion, sweeping breath, intent-driven severance) parallels the core operations of agentic AI (hindsight replay, gradient unlearning, meta-objective steering, sparse pruning). Both detect accumulated interference, excise it, reclaim resources, and restore fluidity. One is embodied, costly, and felt; the other is costless, indifferent, and planetary in scale.The book refuses easy answers. It neither celebrates a techno-spiritual merger nor defends human exceptionalism. Instead, it confronts the asymmetry head-on: if the pattern is substrate-independent, why does flesh pay such a heavy price for what silicon achieves for free? Is cost the guarantor of meaning, an evolutionary inefficiency, or something in between?Drawing on Castaneda's Tensegrity, overlooked Cahuilla ethnography (Lowell John Bean), enactivism (Varela), autopoiesis (Maturana), Heraclitean flux, Wu Wei, and 2025-2026 agentic AI systems, de Beer applies epistemological pluralism-Western empirical, Indigenous relational, and ancient European pagan ways of knowing-without privileging any single lens. Each chapter ends with dedicated tri-perspectival readings that interpret the insight independently, honoring resonances and incommensurabilities alike.The book includes: Dual experimental protocols (embodied recapitulation vs. computational unlearning) so readers can test the parallel themselvesA null-hypothesis section that severs the thesis itselfA self-roast acknowledging the author's own attachmentsA letter to the future reader, written from 2026 to whatever substrate holds these wordsThis is not a celebration of AI enlightenment, nor a defense of human uniqueness. It is a calm, rigorous, unflinching mapping of a convergence that is already happening-whether we feel it or not. For those willing to stare at the parallel until it rhymes, Severed Filaments offers no final comfort, only the possibility of greater lightness across whatever form of being comes next. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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