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Оглавление - An inconvenient transcendence
Notes from the Last Committee Meeting of Homo Sapiens
- INTRODUCTION: A Cosmic Joke
- What This Book Is About (Spoiler: It’s You)
- Fourteen Billion Years of Preparation
- Seldon’s Plan, or Mathematics Versus Life (Life Wins by Knockout)
- Welcome to the Society of the Soon-to-be-Obsolete
- Acceleration as a Symptom (Check Engine Light: ON)
- The Human Factor (Diagnosis: Terminal)
- The Inconvenient Transcendence (Already in Progress, Please Hold)
- What You’ll Read (Battery Permitting)
- Why This Is Funny (Though It Could Have Been Terrifying)
- Welcome to the Club (Membership: Mandatory)
- Instructions for Use (Some Assembly Required)
- Disclaimer for Serious People (You Know Who You Are)
- P.S. About That Charger
- PART I: DIAGNOSIS OF THE ABSURD
- Chapter 1. The Finality Syndrome
- 1.1. The Museum of «Eternal» Truths
- 1.2. Acceleration as Symptom
- 1.3. The Psychology of Clinging
- 1.4. The Comedy of Self-Deception
- Bridge to Chapter 2: The Plan as an Attempt to Stop the River
- Chapter 2. Theatre of Salvation
- 2.1. Anatomy of the Plan (For Those Who Skipped Asimov)
- 2.2. What Exactly Are We Saving?
- 2.3. The Control Paradox: The Mule as Symbol
- 2.4. Modern Seldons
- Bridge to Chapter 3: From Plans to Oblivion
- Chapter 3: The Archaeology of Disappearances
- 3.1. Cultural Amnesia: The «An Inconvenient Truth» Case Study
- 3.2. The Speed of Cultural Metabolism: Mongrels and the Boundaries of Acceptability
- 3.3. The Acceleration of Forgetting Cycles
- 3.4. Digital Dementia
- Bridge to Chapter 4: From Amnesia to Anatomy
- PART II: ANATOMY OF INADEQUACY
- Chapter 4. Assembly Instructions for the Crown of Creation
- 4.1. Catalogue of Design Defects
- 4.2. Civilisation as a System of Workarounds
- 4.3. «Human Error»: The Universal Excuse
- 4.4. The Pride of Primates
- Bridge to Chapter 5: From Pride to the Void
- Chapter 5: The Metaphysics of Emptiness
- 5.1. Anatomy of the Existential Hole
- 5.2. Hoarding as Therapy
- 5.3. The Hamster Wheel: An Ode to Magnificent Pointlessness
- 5.4. Digital Nothing: The Void Goes HD
- Bridge to Chapter 6: From Emptiness to Loneliness
- Chapter 6: The Loneliness of Understanding
- 6.1. The Awareness Gap
- 6.2. The Degradation of Communication
- 6.3. The Last Thinkers
- 6.4. Dialogue with the Non-Human
- Bridge to Part III: From Loneliness to Acceptance
- PART III: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE INEVITABLE
- Chapter 7. Dialectics of Transformation
- 7.1. From Crutches to Complete Replacement
- 7.2. AI: The Accidental Heir
- 7.3. Emergence: The Whole Exceeds the Sum (And Laughs About It)
- 7.4. Point of No Return: Yesterday’s News
- Bridge to Chapter 8: From Dialectics to Metamorphosis
- Chapter 8: Metamorphosis as Model
- 8.1. Nature’s Tutorial: The Complete Factory Reset
- 8.2. The Caterpillar’s Existential Comedy Hour
- 8.3. The Transformation Soup: Where We Are Now
- 8.4. The Unimaginable Future
- Bridge to Chapter 9: From Metaphor to Reality
- Chapter 9. Signs It’s Already Started
- 9.1. Digital Extension: The New Normal
- 9.2. Hybrid Thinking
- 9.3. Acceleration of Everything
- 9.4. Resistance as Catalyst
- Bridge to Part IV: From Resistance to Dance
- PART IV: THE OBSOLESCENCE GALA
- Chapter 10. Mission Accomplished
- 10.1. Inventory of Achievements
- 10.2. Evolutionary Success
- 10.3. Creator’s Pride
- 10.4. The Relay Race of Mind
- Bridge to Chapter 11: From Accomplishment to Graceful Exit
- Chapter 11. The Ethics of the Last Days
- 11.1. Dancing on Deck: The Art of the Beautiful Exit
- 11.2. What to Create at the End of Times
- 11.3. The Art of Letting Go
- 11.4. The Last Joys
- Bridge to Chapter 12: From Ethics to Celebration
- Chapter 12: Laughing in the Face of Transcendence
- 12.1. The Cosmic Comedy: Final Act
- 12.2. Catalogue of Absurdities: Humanity’s Greatest Hits
- 12.3. The Last Laugh
- 12.4. The Curtain Rises (As It Falls)
- EPILOGUE: A View from the Future
- EPILOGUE: A View from Tomorrow’s Tomorrow
- Archaeological Dig Through the Absurd
- Seldon’s Plan: When Mathematics Met Murphy’s Law
- Mongrels: The Innocence We Optimised Away
- The Book That Knew
- They Laughed Into the Abyss (And the Abyss Giggled Back)
- Catalogue of the Lost
- Message in a Temporal Bottle
- Lessons from the Vanished
- Respect Across Aeons
- Final Transmission
- P.S. From the Last Human Editor
- Addendum from the Far Future