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"Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--… (plus d'informations)
This is a book exploring the ideas brought about by computers: information theory, dataomes, biological structures, man-machine interface, new ways of thinking about everything, etc. Information is not just data, but can be revealed by the structure of computers, their design, and the flow back and forth. Genes are also complicated and we are learning more about this every day. Many challenges are faced by evolutionary biologists to unravel these structures. Migration patterns, anthropological research, language, snd storage of ideas are also referred to. ( )
"ALife", Boltzmann brains, category theory, "corgs" (core algorithms), freebits, holobionts, metalworlds, top-down causation -- this is a complicated book! Scharf seeks to make progress toward understanding the nature of biological life by considering how integrated our human existence is with our external data -- our "dataome". In the second-to-last chapter, he argues that the dataome is comparable in importance to the billions-of-years-ago oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere in opening up vast possibilities for future evolution. The last chapter, entitled "A Universe of Dataomes", is even more radical. I'd say that skepticism is called for, as is consideration of some counterbalancing doom-soon scenarios.
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In this instant, a precious one-second span out of the four and a half billion years Earth has existed as a bejeweled sphere of complexity and dynamism, I am gripped by one puzzle only: Can this be really tears glistening in the eyes of the museum guide standing in front of me?
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I think that reconceptualizing our existence, through the lens of the dataome is extraordinarily freeing, and hopeful.
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"Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--
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