Codex Machina (How AI Is Decoding Ancient Civilizations, Technologies, and Lost Languages in Our Search for Meaning)
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Product Details
Author:
Heather Lynn
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Inner Traditions/Bear & Company (April 6, 2027)
Imprint:
Park Street Press
Release Date:
April 6, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9798888504451
Weight:
10.69oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
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Eloquence-SimonSchuster_08212026_P10513726_onix30-20260821.xml
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Eloquence
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$22.99
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65
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Overview
Explores how artificial intelligence continues humanity’s 30,000-year tradition of encoding mind into matter
• Traces the 30,000-year history of encoding consciousness into matter, from cave art and cuneiform to artificial intelligence
• Presents AI-driven case studies unlocking unsolved ancient enigmas, including Sumerian tablets, Rongorongo glyphs, and Harappan script
• Examines the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of AI through Gnostic thought, the neuroscience of narrative, and the question of what makes human meaning irreplaceable
What if artificial intelligence is not just a technological leap, but the latest chapter in humanity’s 30,000-year pursuit of meaning and understanding of life’s purpose?
Reframing the deep past through the lens of information theory and machine intelligence, Heather Lynn explains how humanity has been building information systems—“proto-AIs”—to store and transmit knowledge since the dawn of civilization. She examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the study of early civilizations and symbolic systems by applying AI-driven machine learning, pattern recognition, and data correlation to decode hidden scripts, symbols, and philosophies of the ancient world.
Presenting detailed case studies, the author explores how computational analysis can detect linguistic structures and symbolic patterns that have resisted conventional scholarship. She provides new AI-discovered insights into unsolved historical enigmas, including the clay tablets of Sumer, the Rongorongo glyphs of Easter Island, and the lost Harappan language of the Indus Valley.
Weaving philosophical inquiry with personal narrative, Lynn examines how Gnostic philosophy, ancient mythic structures, and the neuroscience of creativity illuminate our relationship with artificial intelligence, arguing that the human search for meaning remains the irreducible element that no algorithm can replicate.
• Traces the 30,000-year history of encoding consciousness into matter, from cave art and cuneiform to artificial intelligence
• Presents AI-driven case studies unlocking unsolved ancient enigmas, including Sumerian tablets, Rongorongo glyphs, and Harappan script
• Examines the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of AI through Gnostic thought, the neuroscience of narrative, and the question of what makes human meaning irreplaceable
What if artificial intelligence is not just a technological leap, but the latest chapter in humanity’s 30,000-year pursuit of meaning and understanding of life’s purpose?
Reframing the deep past through the lens of information theory and machine intelligence, Heather Lynn explains how humanity has been building information systems—“proto-AIs”—to store and transmit knowledge since the dawn of civilization. She examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the study of early civilizations and symbolic systems by applying AI-driven machine learning, pattern recognition, and data correlation to decode hidden scripts, symbols, and philosophies of the ancient world.
Presenting detailed case studies, the author explores how computational analysis can detect linguistic structures and symbolic patterns that have resisted conventional scholarship. She provides new AI-discovered insights into unsolved historical enigmas, including the clay tablets of Sumer, the Rongorongo glyphs of Easter Island, and the lost Harappan language of the Indus Valley.
Weaving philosophical inquiry with personal narrative, Lynn examines how Gnostic philosophy, ancient mythic structures, and the neuroscience of creativity illuminate our relationship with artificial intelligence, arguing that the human search for meaning remains the irreducible element that no algorithm can replicate.
