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Table of Contents 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
PART ONE - PROBING THE PAST 
CHAPTER ONE - THE LAW OF TIME AND CHAOS
CHAPTER TWO - THE INTELLIGENCE OF EVOLUTION
CHAPTER THREE - OF MIND AND MACHINES
CHAPTER FOUR - A NEW FORM OF INTELLIGENCE ON EARTH
CHAPTER FIVE - CONTEXT AND KNOWLEDGE
PART TWO - PREPARING THE PRESENT 
CHAPTER SIX - BUILDING NEW BRAINS ...
CHAPTER SEVEN - ... AND BODIES
CHAPTER EIGHT - 1999
PART THREE - TO FACE THE FUTURE 
CHAPTER NINE - 2009
CHAPTER TEN - 2019
CHAPTER ELEVEN - 2029
CHAPTER TWELVE - 2099
EPILOGUE:
TIME LINE
HOW TO BUILD AN INTELLIGENT MACHINE IN THREE EASY PARADIGMS
GLOSSARY
NOTES
SUGGESTED READINGS
WEB LINKS
INDEX
Praise for The Age of Spiritual Machines 
The Age of Spiritual Machines “ranges widely over such juicy topics as entropy, chaos, the big bang, quantum theory, DNA computers, quantum computers, Godel’s theorem, neural nets, genetic algorithms, nanoengineering, the Turing test, brain scanning, the slowness of neurons, chess playing programs, the Internet—the whole world of information technology past, present, and future. This is a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next.”
—The New York Times Book Review
 “A mind-expanding account of the rise of intelligent machines..... Nothing less than a blueprint for how to shove Homo sapiens off centre-stage in evolution’s endless play.... If you buy into [Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns]—and all empirical evidence currently available supports it completely—then the replacement of humans by machines as the primary intellectual force on Earth is indeed imminent.”
—John Casti, Nature
 “A welcome challenge to beliefs we hold dear ... Kurzweil paints a tantalizing—and sometimes terrifying—portrait of a world where the line between humans and machines has become thoroughly blurred.”
—Chet Raymo, The Boston Globe
 “Brilliant ... Kurzweil clearly takes his place as a leading futurist of our time. He links the relentless growth of our future technology to a universe in which Artificial Intelligence and Nanotechnology combine to bring unimaginable wealth and longevity, not merely to our descendants, but to some of those living today.”
—Marvin Minsky, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
 “The Age of Spiritual Machines makes all other roads to the computer future look like goat paths in Patagonia.”
—George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty and Life After Television
 “A compelling vision of the future from one of ou ............

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