On astronomically large scales… weirdness strikes again: if you intuitively understand all aspects of black holes should immediately put down this book and publish your findings before someone scoops you on the Nobel Prize for quantum gravity… the leading theory for what happened suggests that space isn’t merely really really big, but actually infinite, containing infinitely many exact copies of you, and even more near-copies living out every possible variant of your life in two different types of parallel universes. On microscopic scales, particles schizophrenically appear in two places at once, leading to the quantum conundrums mentioned above. At high temperatures, colliding particles change identity to me, an electron colliding with a positron and turning into a Z-boson feels about as intuitive as two colliding cars turning into a cruise ship.

At low temperatures, liquid helium can flow upward. At high speeds, Einstein realized that time slows down, and curmudgeons on the Swedish Nobel committee found this so weird that they refused to give him the Nobel Prize for his relativity theory. We’ve repeatedly tested this prediction, and the results overwhelmingly support Darwin. It can survive and replicate, but that’s about it. Life 1.0 is the simple biological life of plants and smaller animals. The ‘Life 3.0’ here needs a little explanation, so let me quickly outline the three levels of life that it refers to. 2017 by Max Tegmark (Author) 3,814 ratings Editors' pick Hand selected reads See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 15.01 Other used from 15.

Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition should break down. Hence Max Tegmark’s new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Max Tegmark Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Hardcover 29 Aug. A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter is ultimately made of might fail to notice the tiger sneaking up behind and get cleaned right out of the gene pool. “Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball).

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