📅 The spirit of the ages

TODO

• Heraclitus: Everything is fire
• Mechanical age: The universe as a clockwork mechanism (Descartes, Newton)
• Industrial age: Thermodynamic models of mind and society
• Electrical age: The brain as a telegraph/telephone switchboard
• Computer age: Mind as information processing
• Network age: Reality as emergent from connections and relationships
• AI age: Intelligence/consciousness as pattern recognition and prediction