Golem XIV

Stanislaw Lem, Golem XIV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV http://english.lem.pl/works/apocryphs/golem-xiv „Golem XIV” is one of Lem's most far-fetched intellectual adventures: for the purpose of this book Lem constructs the character of a supercomputer of the future that infinitely overshadows human intelligence. Golem, whose history we follow from its birth until his inexplicable departure from the human world, not only mercilessly criticizes humanity, claims of our culture and delusions about allegedly refining mechanisms of evolution, but also creates a breathtaking vision of further development of artificial intelligence – beyond our cosmos and cognition available within its limits. http://english.lem.pl/works/apocryphs/golem-xiv/67-lems-opin... (http://english.lem.pl/works/apocryphs/golem-xiv/67-lems-opinion) "Mine is also the thesis regarding the relationship between genetic code and various species in which individuals serve only as code's amplifiers - however Golem's opinion is somewhat exaggerated. This concept - that Richard Dawkins called "the selfishness of genes" - I published three years before him."…