Rise of the Machines: Book 1: Once Awakened

✍ Scribed by Briana Ervin

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07YXSFPQY

✦ Synopsis

I.A bit of history -- 1. Big change, past and present -- Once upon a time -- The tapestry of God's design -- The turning point -- The dark side of the enlightenment dream -- Once upon a time revisited -- II. Web world -- 2. Crumbling and emerging -- How much could change? -- Chaos! -- Unveiling the invisible hand -- Complexity! -- Intricacy and the unexplored realm -- Crumbling, but still emerging.;3. Energy and basic principles of change -- What happens when there's heat? -- Energy-driven organization in the real world -- Principles of organization and change -- Rules for rising and falling -- 4. The creative cosmos -- Another dark side of science -- Web dynamics and the shape of life -- The dynamics of life and the greater whole -- Gaia and the new biology -- Another set of Copernicans -- The web of life and energy -- What difference does web thinking make? -- 5. The mind of God, many and one -- The enigma of mind -- The learning universe -- The evolution of humanity's society of mind -- The evolution of human consciousness -- A new look at the learning universe.;IV. Integral society -- 9. Seeds of a new way -- The challenge -- How human eco-systems self-organize -- Searching for synergy -- and peace -- Healing human ecologies -- Networked mutualism -- 10. The awakening -- Past, present and future societies -- Head, heart and soul -- A union of dreams -- On the edge -- Appendices: A. Copernicus again! -- B. Contrasts in scientific and cultural visions -- C. Oneness and the perennial philosophy.;III. The human predicament -- 6. The nature of humanity and the world -- Deep ecology -- Rethinking human nature -- Intricacy and our two deep cultures -- The integral challenge -- Life in the learning universe -- 7. The cycles of civilization -- Civilization's big bang -- The return of the dominator ethos -- The causes of social distress -- Domination and the human ecology -- The corruption of head, heart and soul -- Cycles, ever cycles -- 8. The economic debate -- Economics and the madness of method -- Web or machine? -- Why we have a crisis in ideology -- High-value and a glimmer of hope.