DeepDyve eBooks - A Brief History of Intelligence

Introduction

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 1 –5

[Humans have accomplished countless amazing things in our short history. We walked on the moon, created electronic devices, mastered flight, etc. With less than seventy thousand years, humankind has evolved from an insignificant animal in a corner of Africa to a species that stands on the verge...

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Stabilizing the Universe

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 7 –11

[The universe we live in is a general term for the vast space and the various celestial bodies with diffused matter that exist in it. Although the origin of the universe is an extremely complex issue, people have been persisting in exploring when and how the universe came into being. Until the...

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Intelligence in Physics

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 13 –21

[After matter was formed in the universe, there rose a natural science, physics, which studies matter, its motion and behavior, and the related entities of energy and force.]

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Intelligence in Chemistry

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 23 –32

[The story of intelligence continues with increasing levels of abstraction. With the appearance of rich information structure in atoms, such as carbon atoms, increasingly complex molecules were formed. As a result, physics gave rise to chemistry, and process of stabilizing the universe reaches a...

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Intelligence in Biology

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 33 –50

[Earth remains the only place in the universe known to harbor life. The earliest time that life forms first appeared on Earth is at least 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.41 billion years—not long after the oceans formed 4.5 billion years ago, and after the formation of the Earth...

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Intelligence in Humans

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 51 –64

[It is believed that animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. About 70,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution occurred in a species called Homo sapiens in Africa. The brain structure of sapiens achieved a threshold of sophistication and capacity such that...

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Intelligence in Machines

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 65 –88

[The idea of building intelligent machines has been around for a long time. The ancient Egyptian and Chinese had myths about robots and inanimate objects coming to life. Philosophers mulled over the hypothesis that mechanical men, artificial beings, and other automatons had existed or could exist...

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Matter, Energy, Information, and Intelligence

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 89 –104

[From the struggle of different schools of artificial intelligence to different views on artificial intelligence in general, we can see that there is still a lack of scientific understanding of artificial intelligence, or intelligence itself.]

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The Metaverse and the Real-World Universe

Yu, F. Richard; Yu, Angela W.

Pages: 105 –109

[Metaverse is undoubtedly a hot word in industry and academia since 2021, and has become a hot new concept in the global technology field recently. At the beginning of 2021, the pre-IPO campaign of the game company Roblox and Epic Games’ investment of $1 billion to create a “metaverse” made the...

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