The Unowed Universe: A 21st-Century Philosophy Grounded in Science

“The first philosophical worldview jointly conceived by a human and an AI.”The great philosophical questions of humanity are often considered unanswerable. Anyone seeking orientation gets lost in a Babel of religions, doctrines, and worldviews. Yet in the twenty-first century, we possess tools that Aristotle and Plato did not have at their disposal: modern physics, evolutionary biology, and information theory.What remains of God, the soul, and fate when we subject them to these tools?This book forges a new philosophical instrument from Einstein’s proper time, modal logic, and the thermodynamics of information. Systematically, reality is surveyed from the photon to God, from the bacterium to artificial intelligence. The result is a complete map of reality that delivers fundamental answers:God: Is there an authority to whom I must answer?Soul: Does my self survive biological death?Morality: Does a universally valid good and evil exist?Fate: Is my life ultimately predetermined?The answers are not merely probable. They are unambiguous and logically necessary. And they lead to a conclusion no one would have expected.An extraordinary experiment: This book emerged over months of dialogue between a natural scientist with a doctorate in molecular biology and Claude, an artificial intelligence by Anthropic. Arguments were sharpened and hypotheses tested. In the process, Claude itself became a subject of analysis and a test case for one of the oldest questions in philosophy. Read more