Homo Deus: a brief History of Tomorrow

Charlie Hebdo 226
Château de Chambord, Loire Valley, France 62, 62
Chekhov Law 17, 18, 55
child mortality 10, 33, 175
childbirth, narration of 297–8, 297
China  1,  269;  biotech  and  336;  Civil  War  263;  economic  growth  and  206,  207,  210;  famine  in  5,  165–6;
Great  Leap  Forward  5,  165–6,  376;  Great  Wall  of  49,  137–8,  178;  liberalism,  challenge  to  267–8;
pollution in 213–14; Taiping Rebellion, 1850–64 271; Three Gorges Dam, building of 163, 188, 196
Chinese river dolphin 188, 196, 395
Christianity:  abortion  and  189;  animal  welfare  and  90–6;  change  from  creative  to  reactive  force  274–6;
economic growth and 205; homosexuality and 192–3, 225–6, 275–6; immortality and 22 see also Bible
and Catholic Church
Chukwu 47
CIA 57, 160, 293–4
Clever Hans (horse) 128–30, 129
climate change 20, 73, 151, 213, 214–17, 376, 377, 397
Clinton, Bill 57
Clovis, King of France 227, 227
Cognitive Revolution 156, 352, 378
Cold War 17, 34, 149, 206, 266, 372
cold water experiment (Kahneman) 294–5, 338
colonoscopy study (Kahneman and Redelmeier) 296–7
Columbus, Christopher 197, 359, 380
Communism 5, 56, 57, 98, 149, 165, 166, 171, 181; cooperation and 133–7, 138; Dataism and 369, 370–
3,  394,  396;  economic  growth  and  206,  207,  208,  217,  218;  liberalism,  challenge  to  264–6,  271–4;
religion and 181, 182, 183; Second World War and 263
computers:  algorithms  and  see  algorithms;  brain–computer  interfaces  48,  54,  287,  353,  359;
consciousness and 106, 114, 117–18, 119, 120; Dataism and 368, 375, 388, 389
Confucius 46, 267, 391–2; Analects 269, 270
Congo 9, 10, 15, 19, 168, 206, 257–61, 387, 388
consciousness: animal 106–7, 120–32; as biologically useless by-product of certain brain processes 116–
17; brain and locating 105–20; computer and 117–18, 119, 120, 311–12; current scientific thinking on
nature  of  107–17;  denying  relevance  of  114–16;  electrochemical  signatures  of  118–19;  intelligence
decoupling from 307–50, 352, 397; manufacturing new states of 360, 362–3, 393; positive psychology
and  360;  Problem  of  Other  Minds  119–20;  self  and  294–5;  spectrum  of  353–9,  359,  360;  subjective
experience and 110–20; techno-humanism and 352, 353–9
cooperation,  intersubjective  meaning  and  143–51,  155–77;  power  of  human  131–51,  155–77;  revolution
and 132–7; size of group and 137–43
Cope, David 324–5
credit 201–5
Crusades 146–8, 149, 150–1, 190, 227–8, 240, 305
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly 360
customer-services departments 317–18
cyber warfare 16, 17, 59, 309–10
Cyborg 2 (movie) 334
cyborg engineering 43, 44–5, 66, 275, 276, 310, 334
Cyrus, King of Persia 172, 173
Daoism 181, 221

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Darom, Naomi 231
Darwin, Charles: evolutionary theory of 102–3, 252, 271, 372, 391; On the Origin of Species 271, 305, 367
data processing: Agricultural Revolution and 156–60; Catholic Church and 274; centralised and distributed
(communism  and  capitalism)  370–4;  consciousness  and  106–7,  113,  117;  democracy,  challenge  to
373–7; economy and 368–74; human history viewed as a single data-processing system 377–81, 388;
life  as  106–7,  113,  117,  368,  377–81,  397;  stock  exchange  and  369–70;  value  of  human  experience
and 387–9; writing and 157–60 see also algorithms and Dataism
Dataism 366, 367–97; biological embracement of 368; birth of 367–8; computer science and 368; criticism
of 393–5; economy and 368–74; humanism, attitude towards 387–8; interpretation of history and 377–
80; invisible hand of the data flow, belief in the 385–7; politics and 370–4, 375–6; power/control over
data 373–7; privacy and 374, 384–5; religion of 380–5; value of experience and 387–9
Dawkins, Richard 305
de Grey, Aubrey 24, 25, 27
Deadline Corporation 331
death, 21–9 see also immortality