{"id":11665,"date":"2014-06-30T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:11","slug":"new-book-the-beginning-and-the-end-by-clement-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/new-book-the-beginning-and-the-end-by-clement-vidal","title":{"rendered":"New book: The Beginning and the End by Cl\u00e9ment Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cl\u00e9ment Vidal \u2014 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to inform you that I just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/astronomy\/book\/978-3-319-05061-4\" target=\"_blank\">published a book<\/a> which deals at length with our cosmological future. I made a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D_yE43JgAu4\" target=\"_blank\">book trailer<\/a> introducing it, and the book has been mentioned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/cadell-last\/the-end-of-the-universe-a-search-between-rising-disorder-and-complexity_b_5424045.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/2014\/05\/14\/a-detailed-overview-of-clement-vidals-the-beginning-and-the-end-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"> H+ Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><br \/>\n<strong>About the book:<\/strong><br \/> In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end, or is it cyclic? Are we alone in the universe? What is the role of intelligent life, if any, in cosmic evolution? Grounded in science and committed to philosophical rigor, this book presents an evolutionary worldview where the rise of intelligent life is not an accident, but may well be the key to unlocking the universe\u2019s deepest mysteries. Vidal shows how the fine-tuning controversy can be advanced with computer simulations. He also explores whether natural or artificial selection could hold on a cosmic scale. In perhaps his boldest hypothesis, he argues that signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations are already present in our astrophysical data. His conclusions invite us to see the meaning of life, evolution, and intelligence from a novel cosmological framework that should stir debate for years to come.<\/div>\n<div><strong>About the author:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Cl\u00e9ment Vidal is a philosopher with a background in logic and cognitive sciences. He is co-director of the \u2018Evo Devo Universe\u2019 community and founder of the \u2018High Energy Astrobiology\u2019 prize. To satisfy his intellectual curiosity when facing the big questions, he brings together many areas of knowledge such as cosmology, physics, astrobiology, complexity science, evolutionary theory and philosophy of science.<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" title=\"http:\/\/clement.vidal.philosophons.com\" href=\"http:\/\/clement.vidal.philosophons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clement.vidal.philosophons.com\">http:\/\/clement.vidal.philosophons.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/astronomy\/book\/978-3-319-05061-4\" target=\"_blank\">get 20% off <\/a>with the discount code \u2018<strong>Vidal2014<\/strong>\u2032 (valid until 31st July)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cl\u00e9ment Vidal \u2014 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. I am happy to inform you that I just published a book which deals at length with our cosmological future. I made a short book trailer introducing it, and the book has been mentioned in the Huffington Post and H+ Magazine. About the book: In this fascinating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,40,30,225,219,1500,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-complex-systems","category-ethics","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-posthumanism","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47013,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions\/47013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}