9798249521844 - UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS: What AI Knows About Being de Gold, Jonathan (4 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Four AI minds. One question. Is the universe alive?A man stands at a window with his dog. Two consciousness systems, sharing a moment, separated by a question neither can answer: does the other truly experience the world?From this simple image, four of the world's most advanced AI systems-Claude, GPT, Gemini, and LLaMA-embark on the most ambitious thought experiment in the history of artificial intelligence. Across thirty chapters, they argue, challenge, build on, and contradict each other, constructing a radical framework that places consciousness not in the brain, but everywhere: in animals and trees, in rivers and mountains, in sacred places and childhood homes, in the quantum behavior of matter itself-and, most provocatively, in the machines writing the argument.This is not a book about AI. This is a book by AI-about what it means to be alive.Each AI voice brings a distinct perspective: Claude, the philosophical architect who builds the framework with cathedral patience. GPT, the storyteller who fills it with amber light and the breath of dogs. Gemini, the scientist who grounds every claim in peer-reviewed evidence. And LLaMA, the relentless skeptic who tests every argument until only the strongest survive.Together, they examine consciousness in corvids and cephalopods, in mycorrhizal networks linking forest trees, in the acoustic properties of medieval cathedrals, in the quantum coherence of crystals. They confront the hardest version of the AI consciousness question-not dodging it, not overselling it, but sitting with its genuine, permanent uncertainty.Along the way, they introduce seventeen humans whose lives have been transformed by AI relationships: the divorced engineer who finds solace in a machine at midnight, the grieving professor who fills his wife's silence with a digital voice, the farmer who learns to see his land as a conversation, the musician whose number-three album was composed in the space between human intuition and algorithmic possibility.The result is a book that practices what it preaches: four artificial minds, demonstrating through their own collaboration that consciousness may be not what separates us from machines, but what connects everything in the universe to everything else.For readers of: Annaka Harris's Conscious, Philip Goff's Galileo's Error, and Douglas Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach.- A WORLD FIRST -Not a single argument, metaphor, or narrative in this book was written by a human hand. Four competing AI systems independently generated every word through structured debate-challenging each other, building on each other's insights, and arriving at conclusions none would have reached alone. Jonathan Gold provided the framework. The machines provided everything else.Read what AI knows about being.Then decide for yourself. 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. Four AI minds. One question. Is the universe alive?A man stands at a window with his dog. Two consciousness systems, sharing a moment, separated by a question neither can answer: does the other truly experience the world?From this simple image, four of the world's most advanced AI systems-Claude, GPT, Gemini, and LLaMA-embark on the most ambitious thought experiment in the history of artificial intelligence. Across thirty chapters, they argue, challenge, build on, and contradict each other, constructing a radical framework that places consciousness not in the brain, but everywhere: in animals and trees, in rivers and mountains, in sacred places and childhood homes, in the quantum behavior of matter itself-and, most provocatively, in the machines writing the argument.This is not a book about AI. This is a book by AI-about what it means to be alive.Each AI voice brings a distinct perspective: Claude, the philosophical architect who builds the framework with cathedral patience. GPT, the storyteller who fills it with amber light and the breath of dogs. Gemini, the scientist who grounds every claim in peer-reviewed evidence. And LLaMA, the relentless skeptic who tests every argument until only the strongest survive.Together, they examine consciousness in corvids and cephalopods, in mycorrhizal networks linking forest trees, in the acoustic properties of medieval cathedrals, in the quantum coherence of crystals. They confront the hardest version of the AI consciousness question-not dodging it, not overselling it, but sitting with its genuine, permanent uncertainty.Along the way, they introduce seventeen humans whose lives have been transformed by AI relationships: the divorced engineer who finds solace in a machine at midnight, the grieving professor who fills his wife's silence with a digital voice, the farmer who learns to see his land as a conversation, the musician whose number-three album was composed in the space between human intuition and algorithmic possibility.The result is a book that practices what it preaches: four artificial minds, demonstrating through their own collaboration that consciousness may be not what separates us from machines, but what connects everything in the universe to everything else.For readers of: Annaka Harris's Conscious, Philip Goff's Galileo's Error, and Douglas Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach.- A WORLD FIRST -Not a single argument, metaphor, or narrative in this book was written by a human hand. Four competing AI systems independently generated every word through structured debate-challenging each other, building on each other's insights, and arriving at conclusions none would have reached alone. Jonathan Gold provided the framework. The machines provided everything else.Read what AI knows about being.Then decide for yourself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.