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Origin of Intelligence - The Role of Information in Individual Lives (Hardcover)
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Origin of Intelligence - The Role of Information in Individual Lives (Hardcover)
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What does the place of information within the cosmos have to do
with the life of any one person or with the nature of right and
wrong? It changes everything. Information can be viewed as nothing
more than an ephemeral artefact of matter, energy, space and time.
Or it can be viewed as a component of the universe every bit as
real and consequential as the others. This book shows not only that
information is real in its own right, but that the intelligence
found in people would not have come into existence if it were not.
The most powerful tool and weapon of humans is the information
system their minds together comprise. Individuals in all their
variety are the way they are because that is the way that together
they are most intelligent. From the evolutionary mechanism which
generated human intelligence to the affairs of people today, the
driving force has always been the role of information in individual
lives. The result of their decisions through the distant past has
been a kind of intelligence new in the universe. People together
form a functional mental system that is of a higher order of
complexity and intelligence than any individual mind could be.
Individual minds are designed not to survive alone in a wilderness,
but to complement the human information system as a whole. To make
the system function, human intelligence and morality necessarily
evolved together. People can think together only if they get along.
The basic outlines of morality are as fixed and timeless and as
rooted in human evolution as the intelligence it evolved with. Each
is both cause and product of the other. The intelligence of the
human information system as a whole is the central principle of
human life. Acknowledging the reality of information changes
forever the divide between secular and religious outlooks.
Religions envision the information world by belief in an invisible
network of connections between people and the world around them.
But these connections exist in hard reality because the existence
of information is just as real and provable as the existence of
rocks. Dividing reality, by believing that physical things are real
and information is not, trivialises the most important aspect of
human existence. Once the illusion that information is not real is
given up, the basic relationships of life re-assume the kinds of
firm definitions that they have always been given by religions. To
live in harmony with the reality of information, each person must
find a way to recognise that their own thoughts and feelings, which
consist of information, are just as real as any objects they think
about. This has always been the essential doorway to reality,
opening to a world of enormous intelligence, love and beauty.
Reasons to care about other people appear clearly and simply as
features of the way things are, endowing every life with a sense of
purpose as an indispensable element of the human information
system. Together, humans exist to wonder and speculate, create and
explore, seek truth and solve the riddles of the universe.
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