God, man, animal, machine. Searching for meaning in the split world. O’giblin M.

Since the time of Newton and Descartes, scientific thinking has deceived the world: has expelled mystical forces and replaced them with mechanical laws. Questions about the structure of the universe, which have been asked by philosophers and theologians for centuries, are now becoming the estate of neurobiologists and specialists in artificial intelligence. Is it possible to separate consciousness from the body and transferred to the computer? Is there free will? Is the universe a simulation?

American writer Megan O’Giblin grew up in a religious family and went through her own experience in disappointment in faith. “God, man, animal, machine” is an exciting story about how scientific discoveries and digital technologies change our ideas about themselves. Dostoevsky here meets Hannah Arendt, Nils Bor and Nikolai Fedorov, artificial intelligence developers resurrect golem, and biblical prophets turn out to be the predecessors of modern transhumanists and futurologists.