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The Information History of Evolution

Science and Nature

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The Information History of Evolution

This is not just history. This is life.Kari Vierimaa

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The Information History of Evolution

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Imagine the universe as a badly run startup governed by one ruthless rule: entropy. Everything must get messier. This book recasts the story of life not as a noble ascent toward perfection, but as a series of desperate software patches against physics, which is actively trying to delete the code. Biology is the cosmos's first attempt at computing, burdened by massive technical debt. In this book, you will discover: - Why thermodynamics always sends a bill. - How sex was invented to force software updates through a network. - Why biological bodies are just disposable hardware for immortal data. - The absolute physical limits of AI and the universe itself. With dry IT humor, Kari Vierimaa takes you on a journey from the wet chemistry of a cell to our interstellar future. We are not the endpoint of evolution. We are merely its biological boot sequence.

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GenreScience and Nature, Technology

Length7 hrs 5 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMar 8, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Information History of Evolution

16ESM3 &amp; AlphaFold

2Prologue

17Synthetic Biology

3Entropy &amp; The Startup House

18Functionalism &amp; Silicon Brains

4Kurzweil’s Epochs

19Mind Uploading

5RNA-to-DNA Migration

20The Garbage Collector

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6Von Neumann’s Universal Constructor

21Tyranny of Carbon

7Genomic Technical Debt

22Extreme Environments

8Information Density

23Hardware-Software Co-Design

9Game Theory &amp; Cooperation

24Fermi Paradox (Error 404)

10Eukaryotic Merger

25Matrioshka Brains

11The HR Disaster

26The Brief Window

12Language as a Protocol

27Computronium

13Memes as Mind Viruses

28Cosmic Consciousness

14The Printing Press

29The Endpoint

15AI Decodes the Dark Matter

30Epilogue

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Kari Vierimaa

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