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  • Creating a Planetary Culture: European Science, Chinese Art, and Indian Transcendence

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Europe, China, and India had distinct world views and inclinations. Europe excelled in science, China tended to art or aesthetics, and India's forte was religion or spirituality. Their mutual influence, which started in earnest in the 19th century, is shaping our planetary culture.The book is well-organized and easy to understand. The author takes concepts that are quite difficult to understand ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East and West at the Crossroads: Integrating Science, Ethics, and Consciousness Across Civilizations

    by Jan Krikke ...
    A groundbreaking AI-assisted biography of Jan Krikke, tracing his work at the crossroads of Eastern and Western thought, science, and philosophy.East and West at the Crossroads is an intellectual biography that traces the lifelong work of Jan Krikke, writer, cultural historian, and technology commentator. Drawing on decades of research and publications, the book explores the intersections of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Putting Consciousness to the Test: Mapping the Mind Across Cultures and Sciences

    An East-West Trilogy, #1

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Series Book 1 - An East-West Trilogy
    "Rethinking the mind through the lens of science, spirit, and civilization."What is consciousness? Where does it come from? Can machines ever become conscious? Putting Consciousness to the Test explores these enduring questions through a wide-angle lens—one that spans East and West, ancient insight and cutting-edge science.From Indian and Chinese models of the mind to panpsychism and quantum ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grid and The Wave: Chinese Cosmology, Modern Physics, and the Limits of AI

    by Jan Krikke ...
    The Grid and the WaveWhat Chinese Cosmology and Modern Physics Reveal About the Future of AIThe history of artificial intelligence did not begin with computers. It began with a misunderstanding.Three centuries ago, Gottfried Leibniz believed he had discovered his binary arithmetic in the hexagrams of the ancient I Ching.That remarkable encounter opens onto a much older story that stretches from ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Predictive State: How China is Rewiring Governance for the AI Century

    by Jan Krikke ...
    The Predictive State shows how China is turning artificial intelligence into governance infrastructure—and redefining how power works in the AI century.While much of the world debates artificial intelligence as a tool, China is building something far more consequential: a system in which intelligence is embedded directly into the infrastructure of society.In The Predictive State, Jan Krikke ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gebser, Wilber, Taub: Three Maps of Human Development, Viewed Through a Chinese Scroll

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Can a civilization become more powerful without becoming wiser?Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber and Lawrence Taub offered three ambitious ways of understanding humanity's changing consciousness, values and institutions. Gebser explored transformations in how we experience the world. Wilber combined developmental psychology with Asian contemplative traditions. Taub traced the changing priorities of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wisdom Test: Six Questions for Living with Artificial Intelligence

    by Jan Krikke ...
    What does it mean to be wise in an age of intelligent machines?Ancient Greece distinguished practical judgment from abstract knowledge. China developed traditions of relational ethics, harmony, and restraint. India explored the difference between the activity of the mind and the awareness that observes it. Japan cultivated an attentiveness to form, absence, and the meaningful interval.These ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Futurist for the 21st Century: The Macrohistory of Lawrence Taub (1936-2018)

    by Jan Krikke, lawrence taub, Sohail Inayatullah, Bill Kelly, Takuya Mirata, Masanori Kanda ...
    This book is intended an introduction and a tribute to the visionary work of American futurist Lawrence Taub, author of The Spiritual Imperative: Sex, Age, and the Last Caste.Whether you are a seeker of wisdom, a student of history, or simply curious about humanity's collective journey, Taub provides a new framework for looking at the past, the present, and the future through new eyes. At the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Hexagrams to Algorithms: Leibniz, the I Ching, and the Birth of Binary Logic

    An East-West Trilogy, #2

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Series Book 2 - An East-West Trilogy
    "Where ancient symbols met binary code—and birthed the digital world."What do an ancient Chinese book of divination and a 17th-century European philosopher have in common? From Hexagram to Algorithm traces the astonishing connection between the I Ching—the oldest of China's classic texts—and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's invention of binary code.This second volume of An East-West Trilogy explores ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Waves and Bits: Analog and Digital Realms in Computing and Physics

    An East-West Trilogy, #3

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Series Book 3 - An East-West Trilogy
    "Unraveling the analog-digital divide at the frontier of physics and computation."Are we living in a digital universe, or is reality analog at its core? Between Waves and Bits explores this fundamental question through the intertwined histories of computing and physics. From cybernetics and binary code to quantum computing and neuromorphic systems, this third volume in An East-West Trilogy ... Read more

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  • Digital Dragon: The Road to Nirvana Runs Through the Land of Tao

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Digital Dragon: The Road to Nirvana runs through the land of Tao offers a new perspective on art and science in East and West. Starting in the 19th century, Western science and technology helped to modernize the East. Not widely known is that Far Eastern aesthetics played a crucial role in modernizing Western art and architecture. Traditional East Asia had many qualities we consider modern today. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LEIBNIZ, EINSTEIN, AND CHINA

    by Jan Krikke ...
    Series series An East Meet West Trilogy
    The Chinese reconciled space and time aesthetically centuries before Einstein did so scientifically. Space is yin, time is yang. The Chinese did not develop the concept of proof, but their intuitive yin-yang methodology accommodates important Western inventions.The 17th-century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of the binary code, claimed that the yin-yang-based ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD