Humanity: The Riddle We Cannot Solve

By Anna Hardikainena

This book is a journey through the history, nature, and future of humanity, from the first steps of consciousness to the age of the post-human. The author explores how myths, language, religion, money, empires, and technology have shaped our minds, societies, and behaviors, transforming the chaos of the world into predictable structures.
Each chapter reveals how human imagination created meaning, governed the masses, altered biology, and developed new forms of life, consciousness, and social organization. Readers travel from the cognitive revolution to global networks, from industrial empires to digital gods and algorithms capable of controlling life itself.
Special attention is given to post-biological evolution, biological and social inequality, the engineering of happiness, mastery over death, and post-human possibilities. The book raises fundamental questions: what does it mean to be human, who defines the boundaries of life and consciousness, and how do technologies and ideas transform the very essence of existence?
This work is not only about the past and present but also about the future humanity is shaping through its ideas, technologies, and biology. "Ghosts of the Beginning and Machines with Dreams" is a philosophical and scientific epic about our unique ability to create meaning, control life, and confront the mystery that endures even after we are gone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6Y99B3V
• ISBN13: 9798278733737
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"