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Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Luke Lafitte
  • Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Luke Lafitte
  • Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Luke Lafitte
Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Luke Lafitte

Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Luke Lafitte

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[Inner Traditions] Examines the role that machines play in the struggle between “spiritual man” and “mechanical man” throughout the ages • Explores how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence, and literature • Demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history • Looks at the contributions and influence of Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, David Bohm, Norbert Wiener, and Steve Jobs as well as the Nag Hammadi Gnostic gospels Humans invented and constructed machines to aid them as far back as the Stone Age. As the machines became more complex, they became extensions of the body and mind, and we naturally began projecting consciousness onto them. As Luke Lafitte shows in detail, although machines complicate the already complicated issue of identity, because they are “ours” and “of us,

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