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A bold examination of artificial intelligence, consciousness, technology, and the human urge to return to the womb

The thesis of Big Mother begins with the premise that our disembodiment as human beings, as a species, is being engineered, and that, at the same time, we are engineering it through technology.

The rough blueprint for this is: the desire to create through technology a replica of the mother's body--so we can disappear into it.

This technologically assembled and technocratically imposed architecture of illusion is there to invite us to completely forget that we exist as organic beings, and to immerse ourselves eternally in an infantile metaverse of superpowers and epic adventures.

The book is not a conventional history, neither of neurodiversity, artificial intelligence, computing, nor even of techno-culture. Its approach is to intuitively explore the emergence of artificial intelligence as a sociological, cultural, psychological and above all spiritual (or anti-spiritual) phenomenon, as well as a technological one.

To lay the groundwork for this exploration requires mapping, not the origins of computing, but something closer to the origins of consciousness and of social identity. For it is out of this, the book argues, that "A.I." is emerging, with the technology being nothing more nor less than the necessary vehicle for that arrival.

What "A.I" actually is, before and beyond the technology that is delivering it--what it is in Nature (and culture) that is anti-Nature--is the larger question that this work will attempt to answer.