It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Peregaea by Ivan Richard Millett
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PereGaea. Where Darwin's story continues... If intelligence is how, consciousness is why. Animals, from single celled creatures to primates, find their most favourable ecological niche through natural selection. How they extract information from their environment via whatever senses they might evolve shapes the nature of their consciousness. What they then learn to do with this information in order to acquire more resources at least cost, then defines the measure of their intelligence. This book looks at these questions of consciousness and intelligence by tracing the course of evolution on the fictional world of PereGaea, perhaps more electronic than organic, from simple inert objects to something that at least resembles consciousness. The concepts it describes are hardware independent', that is, they may be relevant to any kind of information processing and storage system, not necessarily those of brains, computers or neural nets. Indeed, one might wonder if the current obsession with how the human brain works isn't actually impeding our enquiry into the nature of consciousness. Trying to copy the flight of birds proved unwise during the early development of powered flight; jumbo jets do not cruise near the speed of sound by flapping their wings.
Peregaea by Ivan Richard Millett is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Peregaea aloud.
Peregaea is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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