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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:Acknowledgments
Skipping Math
Chapter 1. Life, Energy and Information
What is Life?
The Decay Towards Equilibrium
Energy Extraction Requires Information
Defining Information
Information Storage Requires Energy
Storing Information
Chapter 2. From the Big Bang to living cells
Intelligent Systems
Ex-nihilo Energy and Information
The Emergence of Complexity
Life without Selection
The Startups of Life
Amino Acids – the Entrepreneurs of Life
The Secret of Life
Evolution through Learning
Artificial Neural Networks and DNA
Collaboration and Eukaryotes
The Importance of Scientific Revolutions
Chapter 3. From Complex Organisms to Societies
Intelligence Needs Energy
Sleep, Deat
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