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parts of the manuscript and shared their ideas.
To Eilona Ariel, for being a gushing fountain of enthusiasm and a firm rock of
refuge.
To my mother-in-law and accountant, Hannah Yahav, for keeping all the
money balls in the air.
To my grandmother Fanny, my mother, Pnina, my sisters Liat and Einat, and
to all my other family members and friends for their support and companionship.
To Chamba, Pengo and Chili, who offered a canine perspective on some of
the main ideas and theories of this book.
And to my spouse and manager, Itzik, who already today functions as my
Internet-of-All-Things.
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Abdallah, Muhammad Ahmad bin (Mahdi) 270, 271
Abe, Shinzō 207
abortion 189, 190, 236
Adee, Sally 288–9, 364
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) 39
aesthetics: humanist 229–30, 233, 234, 238; Middle Ages 228–9, 228
Afghanistan 19, 40, 100, 171, 351
Africa: AIDS crisis in 2–3; borders in 167–8, 169; climate change and 214–15; conquest of 259, 350; Ebola
outbreak in 11, 13, 203; Sapiens evolution in savannah of 338, 388–9
Agricultural Revolution: animal welfare and 77, 78–9, 83, 90–6, 363; Bible and 77, 78–9, 90–6, 98; Dataist
interpretation of history and 379; intersubjective networks and 156, 157
AIDS 2–3, 11–12, 13, 19
algorithms: concept defined 83–4; Dataism and 367, 368, 381, 384–97; humanism, threat to 309–97 see
also Dataism; individualism, threat to 328–46; organisation of societies in algorithmic fashion 160–3;
organisms as 83–90, 106–7, 112–14, 117, 118, 121, 124, 125, 126–7, 140, 150–1, 304–5, 327, 328–9,
367, 368, 381, 388; render humans economically and militarily useless 307–27
Allen, Woody 29
Alzheimer’s disease 24, 336
Amazon Corporation 343–4
Amenemhat III 161, 162, 175
Andersson, Professor Leif 231
animals: Agricultural Revolution and 77, 78–9, 83, 90–6, 363; as algorithms 83–90; evolutionary
psychology and 78–83; animist and biblical views of 75–8, 90–6; cognition/intelligence, underestimation
of 127–31; consciousness and 106–7, 120–32; cooperation and 137–43; domesticated, numbers of 71–
2; global biomass of 72; humanism and 98–9, 231; inequality, reaction to 140–1, 142; intersubjective
web of meaning and 150; mass extinction of 71–5; mother–infant bond 88–90; soul and 101–2;
suffering of 78–83, 82, 231, 286
animist cultures 75–8, 91, 92, 96–7, 173
Annie (musical composition program) 325
Anthropocene 71–99
antibiotics 10, 12, 13, 23, 27, 99, 179, 266, 275, 348
antidepressants 40, 49, 122–4
Apple Corporation 15, 155, 343, 372
art: medieval and humanist attitudes towards 228–30, 228, 233; technology and 323–5
artificial intelligence 48; animal welfare and 99; consciousness and 119; humanism, threat to 309–97;
individualism, threat to 328–46; putting brakes on development of 50, 51; renders humans
economically and militarily useless 307–27; timescale for human-level 50 see also algorithms; Dataism
and under individual area of AI
artificial pancreas 330
Ashurbanipal of Assyria, King 68, 68
Associated Press 313
Auschwitz 257, 376
autonomous cars 114, 114, 163, 312, 322, 341–2, 384–5
Aztec Empire 8–9
Babylon 172–3, 309, 390
Bach, Johann Sebastian 324–5, 358
Bariyapur, Nepal 92
bats: experience of the world 356–7, 358; lending and vampire 204–5
Beane, Billy 321
Bedpost 331
Beethoven, Ludwig van 253, 324; Fifth Symphony and value of experience 257–61, 358, 387–8
Belavezha Accords, 1991 145, 145
Bentham, Jeremy 30, 32, 35
Berlin Conference, 1884 168
Berlin Wall, fall of, 1989 133
Berry, Chuck: ‘Johnny B. Goode’ 257–61, 358, 387, 388
Bible 46; animal kingdom and 76–7, 93–5; Book of Genesis 76–8, 77, Dataism and 381; 93–4, 97;
composition of, research into 193–5; evolution and 102; homosexuality and 192–3, 195, 275; large-
scale human cooperation and 174; Old Testament 48, 76; power of shaping story 172–3; scholars scan
for knowledge 235–6; self-absorption of monotheism and 173, 174; source of authority 275–6; unique
nature of humanity, promotes 76–8
biological poverty line 3–6
biotechnology 14, 43–4, 46, 98, 269, 273, 375 see also individual biotech area
Bismarck, Otto von 31, 271
Black Death 6–8, 6, 7, 11, 12
Borges, Jorge Luis: ‘A Problem’ 299–300
Bostrom, Nick 327
Bowden, Mark: Black Hawk Down 255
bowhead whale song, spectrogram of 358, 358
brain: Agricultural Revolution and 156–7, 160; artificial intelligence and 278, 278; biological engineering
and 44; brain–computer interfaces 48, 54, 353, 359; consciousness and 105–13, 116, 118–19, 121–4,
125; cyborg engineering and 44–5; Dataism and 368, 393, 395; free will and 282–8; happiness and 37,
38, 41; self and 294–9, 304–5; size of 131, 132; transcranial stimulators and manipulation of 287–90;
two hemispheres 291–4
brands 156–7, 159–60, 159, 162
Brezhnev, Leonid 273
Brin, Sergey 28, 336
Buddhism 41, 42, 94, 95, 181, 185, 187, 221, 246, 356
Calico 24, 28
Cambodia 264
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, 2012 122
capitalism 28, 183, 206, 208–11, 216–17, 218–19, 251–2, 259, 273–4, 369–73, 383–6, 396 see also
economics/economy
Caporreto, Battle of, 1917 301
Catholic Church 147, 183; Donation of Constantine 190–2, 193; economic and technological innovations
and 274; marriage and 26; papal infallibility principle 147, 190, 270–1; Protestant revolt against 185–7;
religious intolerance and 198; Thirty Years War and 242, 243, 246; turns from creative into reactive
force 274–5 see also Bible and Christianity
Ceauçescu, Nicolae 133–4, 134, 135–6, 137
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