How the Amoeba Invented Advanced AI
How the Amoeba Invented Advanced AI A Deep History of Semantic Clouds, Consequential Intelligence, and Artificial Minds Table of Contents Preface — The Claim 0.1 “Invented” as evolutionary rather than historical authorship 0.2 Why intelligence should not begin with brains 0.3 Why semantics should not begin with language 0.4 Why AI should not begin with computers 0.5 The amoeba as a minimal consequential agent 0.6 From biochemical discrimination to artificial reasoning 0.7 The central thesis: \[ \boxed{ \text{Advanced AI is a technological reconstruction of organizational principles far older than nervous systems.} } \] 0.8 The Semantic Cloud as the connecting concept 0.9 Structure as reconstruction rather than origin 0.10 The distinction between ancestry, analogy, and identity 0.11 What this book does not claim 0.12 Roadmap: cell → organism → nervous system → language → formalism → machine intelligence Part I — Before Intelligence Had a Name 1. The World Before Representation 1.1...