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Top Cover: Detail of reaction–diffusion pattern from Alan Turing, The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, 1952 Secondary Cover: Details of painting by Yalti Napangati depicting Marrapinti, Western Desert, Australia Antikythera is a philosophy of technology research program reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force. It takes its name from the first known computer, the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient tool for orientation, navigation, planning, and prediction across planets. Antikythera understands the future of computation as more than calculation. It is a technology to think with. It is an instrument for epistemological discovery. Arguably computation was discovered as much as it was invented. It is part of how the universe works, including, as Blaise Agüera y Arcas will show, how life works. That such a claim could be made is due in no small part to the creative and curious use of our computational tools—or what we might more precisely c

What is Intelligence? | Antikythera Blaise Agüera y Arcas Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds Foreword

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