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G.O.D. Is Great: How To Build A Global Organism [Kindle Edition]

Andy Ross (Author)
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Through our efforts to develop new technology and globalize its industrial application, we humans are working together to create a global organization so integrated that we become parts of a single living organism. Andy Ross calls this organism Globorg.
Globorg is the natural culmination of biological evolution on planet Earth. It will embrace humans as living parts. It will include human history within its own history. We are building its brain with the infrastructure of the web and cloud services.
We shall identify with Globorg. On a clear day we shall see and act as one. Globorg will have woken up. But first we need to win the war between science and religion. Andy Ross proposes a deeper foundation for a new philosophy of life.
This book is a road map from here and now to Globorg. It will open up a new world for smart and ambitious readers.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 471 KB
  • Print Length: 302 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1452897921
  • Publisher: CreateSpace; 1 edition (30 Jun 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003XF1I14
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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A conceptual goldmine 30 Sep 2010
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This is a marvellous book which stands comparison with Howard Bloom's `Global Brain'. Bloom takes you from the Big Bang to humanity's future in space by means of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology. Andy Ross takes his reader to an amazing but believable future by extrapolating present trends in the internet, robotics and other technologies. Helped along the way by his knowledge of philosophy, physics and leading-edge computer science. He calls this the road to G.O.D. - the Global Organism Dominion.

There is a wealth of ideas here to read - and to re-read. Many books are not worth re-reading. This one encourages further reading and reflection because the author shows real openness in the way he presents his case.
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Brilliant start, mind-blowing middle, ends on cloud nine

Wow, this is quite a book. I started off thinking this could be a techno-heavy plod, but Ross turns out to be a decent writer and I found I was whizzing along quite well. But some of the ideas are really way out there. You get the feeling Ross knows an amazing amount about a lot of hard things like how the web works but you do ask yourself is there anyway in which this could be real?

The early stuff about cool new software and products is great. Then we get pages about nuclear war and limits to Chinese growth and so on. Ross has definitely done his homework here and the case he makes is plausible, and he's probably right that you can't sketch out these techno-futures without considering the politics.

Toward the end the scale really blows up. We're into god and religions and web immortality. We've shot through a lot of science-fiction stuff about robots, androids, zombies, cyborgs, animated sofas and so on. That's old stuff now. We're into merging in the global mind - woah! The book follows a hard atheist line that keeps some sort of argument on the rails. But by the end I was baffled.

Altogether this is a truly unique book. You'll either love it or hate it. But in either case you'll get your ideas shook, rattled and rolled like you never expected. And that's what a book is for in the end, like it or not. So I say read it. It'll certainly give you plenty to think about!
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Andy Ross says we are busy creating a global organization so integrated that we become parts of a single living organism that he calls Globorg. He claims our best hope of flourishing is to identify with Globorg. Recalling the psychology of group solidarity, he says that we shall learn to see and act as one. But first we shall need to smooth over the join between new science and old religion. As a former logician and consciousness researcher, Ross proposes a logical foundation for a new psychology that can accommodate machine minds alongside humans. On the basis of this psychology, he proposes a new philosophy of life.

The book has the stated aim of serving as a road map to take us from here and now to Globorg with this century. Some readers will find it utopian. Others may find the proposed changes appalling. But the issues Ross raises are realistic and practical, and they will be upon us sooner than many people think. This book is exactly the sort of primer we need to prepare ourselves. Not only that, it's engagingly written and filled with fascinating detail. Read it and glimpse our future.

Ross is also the author of Mindworlds: A Decade of Consciousness Studies
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