CEU Ediciones has published in book form, under the title Un universo en evolución (An evolving universe), a compilation of about a hundred posts published in this blog and its Spanish version, Divulciencia, over nine years, thematically arranged. Currently this book is only available in Spanish. These are the titles of the fifteen chapters:
- Introduction
(3 posts)
- The
beginning (5 posts)
- The
standard cosmological model (9 posts)
- The
fine-tuning problem and the theories of the multiverse
(7 posts)
- The
problem of time (7 posts)
- Life
on Earth and on other worlds (3 posts)
- The
evolution of life (7 posts)
- Man
(5 posts)
- Natural
and artificial intelligence (7 posts)
- Synthetic
life and artificial life (3 posts)
- The
future of man (8 posts)
- The
end of man and of the universe (4 posts)
- Science,
faith, and atheism (14 posts)
- About
science in general (17 posts)
- Conclusion
(1 article)
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| Julio A. Gonzalo |
The book starts by a presentation by
Javier Pérez Castells, and a prologue by Julio A. Gonzalo. This is a paragraph
from the presentation, which has been highlighted on the back cover of the
book:
Manuel Alfonseca presents us in this book with a selection of posts
from his blogs arranged by topic. The guiding thread is the story of creation. Beginning with the start of the universe (where he expands more,
given his experience and knowledge on this subject), going through the origin
of life and evolution, ending with anthropological conceptions of the human
being. After that, he turns towards the supposed conflict between science and faith,
grouping together a set of posts where he answers to this false tirade. Along
the way, he stops to deal with the issue of artificial intelligence, the author’s
favorite subject, and devotes a good number of chapters to an optimistical look
at the future, albeit not forgetting that everything, together with the story
of creation, will have an end. The book concludes with a few pertinent
reflections on the limits of science, today considered by many as the only
source of knowledge, in the exacerbation of what we call scientism.
Most of the posts (about one hundred) that
have become part of the book have been previously published on the blogs Divulciencia and PopulScience, although a few are completely new, others
have been built from several consecutive original posts or from those that dealt
with the same topics, and the rest, those who have passed directly from the
blogs to the book, have been updated.
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