God, Man, Animal, Machine: The Search for Meaning in a Disenchanted World

"Since the days of Newton and Descartes, scientific thinking has disenchanted the world: banishing mystical forces and replacing them with mechanical laws. Questions about the structure of the universe that philosophers and theologians have been asking for centuries are now becoming the domain of neuroscientists and artificial intelligence specialists. Can consciousness be separated from the body and transferred to a computer? Does free will exist? Is the Universe a simulation? American writer Megan O'Gieblen grew up in a religious family and went through her own experience of disappointment in faith. "God, Man, Animal, Machine" is a gripping story about how scientific discoveries and digital technologies are changing our ideas about ourselves. Here, Dostoevsky meets Hannah Arendt, Niels Bohr and Nikolai Fyodorov, developers of artificial intelligence resurrect the golem, and biblical prophets turn out to be the forerunners of modern transhumanists and futurologists."