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key	SB4682SA
title	Crash and the Human Continuum
author	Connolly, James D.
item type	Book
publication year	2021
date	2021
abstract note	Welcome to my new novel, Crash and The Human Continuum. I started to write this book as an exploration on the burgeoning AI and robotic revolution; this new surge in human ingenuity that will change the way we live. We have had to learn a good deal about the upside and downside of technology with the rise of the computer, and it is so recent in our history that we have still much to learn about making it, and the media and devices it produced, more beneficial, and less destructive. So, AI, too, will have its magic and its negative affects until we learn to place it within good boundaries. It will take time, and as I wrote this book to explore all this, I realised my own limits, when it comes to seeing the future of the now bourgeoning Age of Automation, and what may occur due to it; beneficial and otherwise. What I found as I wrote, was that I was less so exploring the possible future reality or the influences of this latest wave of technological advance, and more so seeking the essence of the nature of AI, and by it, realising more of what it was to be human. The nature of a machine, no matter how wondrous, could not even compare to being human. I found over and again the wonder of the nature of human life and human being. What we contain can be mimicked to a degree, and very well indeed, and AI can take much of the grunt work out of our lives and set us free to discover and create and relate more as humans, but I found that AI is simply our creation, and that we are more marvellous than I could see before writing this book. When I explored what an AI would be like I found more of what it is to be human and the beauty of our creation. We are a wonder. Our potential is beyond reckoning, even now, creating this next Revolution that may yet be so. That which is created, is naturally lesser, and AI simply increases the outward potential of humanity. Our being and awareness is far wider than anything we can, or will, create, and intelligence is not, in and of itself, what it is to be human. We are simply more. The human reality is a supercomputer, and super-reality, beyond any mere machine; beyond even our own current comprehension of ourselves. I believe we will learn these things as we wander into the future. No book can grant vision of the full nature of the future or encapsulate the human reality. I have really only scouted there just a little in this story, but I hope you enjoy wandering with Crash as he seeks out what makes humans…human.
number pages	240
publisher	[Publisher not stated]
place	[Place not stated]
language	English
manual tags	YOUTH; FICTION

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