Kristiyan Kirchev

Electronic Minds Kristiyan Kirchev

This is a book about the evolution of the consciousness from a memetic algorithm inhabiting a biological host, carried over chemical-electronic network -- into a digital ghost of viral expansion distributed along a silicium magnetic network of cloud computing hardware. The book touches on spiritual aspects of modern digital culture and how it transfers back from ages of shamanic dance, meditative contemplation and telepathy. In modern 21st century realities, the taken for granted Internet network, when drilled down and looked at into investigative mode, reveals to be a model of communication borrowed from nature. The same memetic will that has driven mankind to create and invent machines and semantic models of replication, to support life and survival, has now opened a new era of mediums to inhabit - the invention, creation and implementation of the Internet and information technologies is nothing more than that very same memetic virus driving the human race through evolution - manifesting itself to leave the biological host and inhabit a new horizon for existence - the digital ether of cyberspace.