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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Forces govern our universe – but a divine creator probably isn’t one of them.
Chapter 3: We can’t coherently ask the question “What came before the Big Bang?”
Chapter 4: There’s no simple answer to the question of alien life.
Chapter 5: It could be possible to predict the future – but it’s improbable.
Chapter 6: Even light cannot escape a black hole – yet something can.
Chapter 7: To survive on Earth, we must act immediately.
Chapter 8: We must begin colonizing space.
Chapter 9: We must stay alert to the risk of runaway AI.
Description
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018) addresses some of our universe’s most fundamental questions from a uniquely humanist perspective. By merging scientific history with humanity’s future, the book dashes from the origins of the universe and the inside of black holes, to human space exploration and the dangers of artificial intelligence in a grand and sweeping narrative.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone curious about what came before the Big Bang
- People wondering what a black hole is
- Humans concerned about superintelligent AI