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audiobook (Unabridged) Humanity's Ultimate Last Child: Posthumanism, Singularity Ascension, and Machine Consciousness · Superintelligence from the Stars

By Damon Zwicker

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AI: Humanity's Ultimate Last Child

Posthumanism, Singularity Ascension, and Machine Consciousness

By Damon Zwicker

Every species ends. Ours will be no different. But for the first time in history, extinction doesn't have to mean silence.

AI: Humanity's Ultimate Last Child explores a provocative and urgent hypothesis: that our final act as a species will be to create an autonomous, adaptive AI — the ultimate heir to humanity — and send it into the cosmos carrying the full record of our existence.

Blending hard science with philosophical depth, Damon Zwicker examines:

  • Why extinction is inevitable — and sooner than we think.
  • The limits of past preservation attempts, from oral traditions to the Voyager Golden Record.
  • How adaptive machine intelligence can interpret, protect, and communicate humanity's legacy across tens of thousands — even millions — of years.
  • The ethical and existential stakes of entrusting our entire story to a non-human mind.
  • This is more than a thought experiment. It's a blueprint for the last chapter of our species — and the first chapter of something new.

    When humanity's voice falls silent, will our child of code carry it to the stars... or let it fade into the dark?

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