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QI: The Quest for Intelligence Ref: BV11

Kevin Warwick

Are computers about to become more intelligent than humans? Are some animals more intelligent than we are? Are we born intelligent, or can we become intelligent? For the first time in the history of mankind, we are near to having the biological understanding, the economic ability and the cultural willpower to change the intelligence of future generations. But do we fully understand what intelligence is? Kevin Warwick has conducted a revolutionary investigation into the problems associated with conventional, subjective IQ testing and into the nature of intelligence itself. He presents a new theory in which human, animal and artificial intelligence are united for the first time. The results will astound you. Warwick overturns much current thinking on intelligence, reveals how IQ testing has been misused in the past (including how the US used low IQ scores as a basis for "voluntary" sterilisation), and shows how foods, drinks, television and other factors affect IQ test results.

240pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

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SCIENCE & THE AKASHIC FIELD: An Integral Theory of Everything Ref: B2D19

Ervin Lazlo

Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in the new field of vacuum physics now show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in the zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic-field - or “A-field” - is not only the original source of all things that arise in time and space; it is also the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that ever happened in life, on Earth, and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen. Scientist and philosopher Ervin Laszlo conveys the essential element of this vision of the “informed universe” in language that is accessible and clear. The informed universe lends credence to our deepest intuitions of the oneness of life and the whole of creation. We discover that, as philosopher William James stated, “we are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

224pp, 9x6 ... Paperback

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