What is Life? | Antikythera
Antikythera is a philosophy of technology research program reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force.
It takes its name from the first known computer, the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient tool for orientation, navigation, planning, and prediction across planets.
Antikythera understands the future of computation as more than calculation. It is a technology to think with. It is an instrument for epistemological discovery.
Arguably computation was discovered as much as it was invented. It is part of how the universe works, including, as Blaise Agüera y Arcas will show, how life works.
That such a claim could be made is due in no small part to the creative and curious use of our computational tools—or what we might more precisely call artificial computation. With those tools we discover that some otherwise imperceivable building blocks of our reality and of our own flesh are themselves computational. Computation discovers itself through us.
The Antikythera book series, in collaboration with MIT Press, begins with this extraordinary little book that asks perhaps the most complex question of all: what is life?
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