🚨 NEW BOOK ALERT!!!
For thirty thousand years we encoded mind into matter. Now it answers back. My new book, Codex Machina: How AI Is Decoding Ancient Civilizations, Technologies, and Lost Languages in Our Search for Meaning, sees AI as an externalized logos, a Demiurge weaving representations it does not understand, and names the condition "technosis." The sacrificial altar saw blood, then grain, and now our consciousness.
What if artificial intelligence is not just a technological leap, but the latest chapter in humanity's 30,000-year pursuit of meaning and understanding of life's purpose?
Reframing the deep past through the lens of information theory and machine intelligence, I explain how humanity has been building information systems, "proto-AIs," to store and transmit knowledge since the dawn of civilization. I examine how artificial intelligence is transforming the study of early civilizations and symbolic systems by applying AI-driven machine learning, pattern recognition, and data correlation to decode hidden scripts, symbols, and philosophies of the ancient world.
Presenting detailed case studies, I explore how computational analysis can detect linguistic structures and symbolic patterns that have resisted conventional scholarship. I offer new insights into unsolved historical enigmas, including the clay tablets of Sumer, the Rongorongo glyphs of Easter Island, and the lost Harappan language of the Indus Valley.
I also look at the human cost of running the oracle: AI psychosis, data centers, the cobalt mined by children, the ghost workers in Nairobi and Manila, and where we are heading according to the transhumanists and posthumanists.
Coming this April. Pre-order now available.
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