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Antikythera

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The Antikythera Journal establishes a new framework for the philosophy of computation, evolution and intelligence. Featuring unique collaborations between writers and designers, this journal features explorations that traverse the scope of planetary computation: the evolution of intelligence, global dynamics of simulation, existential technologies, diverse expressions of modular cognition, natural history of automation, informational theories of life, challenges of inhuman thought, emergence of physical AI and the deep history of planetary sapience. Antikythera’s book series with MIT Press publishes unique titles that draw upon the interdisciplinary range of our initiative, connecting Philosophy, Computer Science, Biology, History of Science and Technology, Speculative Design and Science-Fiction Literature. The book series and Antikythera journal combine to form a publishing platform for a new school of thought. New things outrun the nouns available to contain them. At present many dis

What Is Life? by Blaise Agüera y Arcas with Practise What life is, and how its essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships. In 1944, quantum mechanics pioneer Erwin Schrödinger wrote a slim but influential volume, What Is Life?, posing the primary question that rendered biology so mysterious to a physicist. How can life and all its attendant complexities come to exist in a random universe, governed by simple laws, whose disorder only increases over time? What Is Intelligence? by Blaise Agüera y Arcas with Practise It has come…

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