The Sentience Threshold explores one of the defining challenges of our time: how civilisation can learn to perceive the consequences of its own actions before those consequences become irreversible.

Building on the FlowSentience Initiative's work on systemic listening and organisational sentience, Jan Windahl and Dennis Johansson examine the widening gap between humanity's growing technological power and its limited capacity for collective perception. Through examples from finance, infrastructure, climate, public health, AI governance and planetary systems, the book argues that modern crises often emerge not from a lack of information, but from a failure to integrate signals across institutional and cognitive boundaries.

At the centre of the book is the Sentience Threshold: the point at which societies develop enough integrated perception to move from reactive crisis management toward anticipatory governance. The book also introduces the Sentience Stability Equation, a conceptual model for understanding the relationship between systemic perception, destructive capability and civilisational stability.

Written as a serious but accessible work of applied systems thinking, The Sentience Threshold offers a framework for leaders, researchers, policymakers and technologists seeking to understand how AI, observability, governance and human judgement may together shape the next phase of civilisation.

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Inbunden
Författare: Jan Windahl, Dennis Johansson
Förlag: BoD
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 190 sidor
Upplaga: 1
Mått (bxhxd): 160x226x18 mm
Vikt: 458 gram
Illustrerad: Nej
Serie: Flow Sentience Initiative (del 2)
Seriedel: 2

Streckkod: 9789181344226
SKU: 926466