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The amazing journey of reason : from DNA to artificial intelligence
2020
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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
- (Springer Publishing)

Author Biography

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".
- (Springer Publishing)

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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
- (Springer Publishing)

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Table of Contents

1 Life, Energy and Information
1(10)
What Is Life?
1(1)
The Decay Towards Equilibrium
2(1)
Energy Extraction Requires Information
3(1)
Denning Information
4(2)
Information Storage Requires Energy
6(2)
Storing Information
8(3)
2 From the Big Bang to Living Cells
11(18)
Intelligent Systems
11(1)
Ex-Nihilo Energy and Information
12(2)
The Emergence of Complexity
14(1)
Life Without Selection
15(3)
The Startups of Life
16(2)
Amino Acids -- The Entrepreneurs of Life
18(2)
The Secret of Life
20(2)
Evolution Through Learning
22(1)
Artificial Neural Networks and DNA
23(2)
Collaboration and Eukaryotes
25(1)
The Importance of Scientific Revolutions
25(4)
3 From Complex Organisms to Societies
29(16)
Intelligence Needs Energy
29(1)
Sleep, Death and Reproduction
30(2)
The Limits of Unicellular Organisms
32(1)
From Interaction to Cognitive Processes
33(1)
Nervous System or the Forgotten Transition
34(2)
Origin of Neurons
35(1)
First Brains and Shallow Neural Networks
36(1)
Societies and Natural Selection
37(2)
Insects and Intelligent Societies
39(3)
The Social Body
42(3)
4 The Human Social Brains
45(18)
Why a More Powerful Brain?
47(3)
The Primates' Brain
50(1)
What Makes a Homo
51(2)
The Anatomy of Language
53(3)
Agriculture and Cognitive Social Networks
56(3)
Empires and Networks
59(2)
The Expensive-Class Hypothesis
61(2)
5 The Human Meta-Organism
63(18)
The Evolution of Communication in Homo sapiens
64(1)
More Communicans than Sapiens
64(2)
Communications Technologies and Topologies
66(3)
Internet Companies
69(7)
On Regulating the Private Sector
72(4)
The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
76(5)
Appendix 1 More on Networks and Information 81(12)
Appendix 2 Math and Real Life 93(4)
Appendix 3 How Artificial Neural Networks Work 97(6)
References 103

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