{"product_id":"orbital-mechanism-ontology-of-the-man-machine-9788799472413","title":"Orbital Mechanism: Ontology of the Man-Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anders Jerløw Agerbo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Agerbo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Agerbo\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHave you ever wondered whether your AI assistant is more than just a complex machine?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnd have you ever wondered whether you are?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a few years - if not already - everyone will be asking themselves the first question. Philosophers have been asking the second for more than two thousand years. In this book the two questions illuminate each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrbital Mechanism is a bold metaphysical model - a process-philosophical analogy that uses the image of celestial bodies orbiting under gravity as a living metaphor for reality. It captures the essence, and even many finer details, of Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy in an intuitive and visually compelling way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, the orbital mechanical lens offers a remarkably clear and accessible way to understand modern AI architecture - from attention mechanisms and centroids to overfitting, catastrophic forgetting, and the tension between coherence and concreteness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy bringing these two perspectives together, \u003ci\u003eOrbital Mechanism\u003c\/i\u003e opens powerful new possibilities: deep philosophical inquiry into AI on one hand, and using AI as an ontological petri dish to better understand ourselves on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, this book makes the case that human consciousness and artificial intelligence are made from the same ontological stuff - and that both are best understood through a processual rather than a clockwork-mechanical lens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Agerbo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889981243543,"sku":"9788799472413","price":1172.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788799472413.webp?v=1781178423","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/orbital-mechanism-ontology-of-the-man-machine-9788799472413","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}