The Amazing Journey of Reason: from DNA to Artificial Intelligence

Organisms, or organized, living, systems. What's their origin? Why and how did they evolve? This book analyses the evolution of complex structures in the universe - from the subatomic particles after the Big Bang onwards - in order to understand the emergence of today's interconnected society.

Artificial Intelligence, it concludes, is just the final step of a journey which started with DNA, itself the first Information and Communication Technology devised by nature on planet earth. What we are living today is the formation of the distributed nervous system of a metaorganism, in which human beings are the cells.

A reassuring environment for us, but one where each individual will count increasingly less. A hugely complex, world-wide organism which makes Homo, while more communicans, also increasingly less sapiens.