French Author Claudine Le Tourneur Launches her Book at the BA
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The BA Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies and the Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center (Alex Med) organized today a ceremony to launch the book La Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie: la Première Intelligence du Monde (The Library of Alexandria: The World's First Intelligence) by French author Claudine Le Tourneur D’Ison.. The event was moderated by Dr. Shaimaa El-Sherif, Senior Research Specialist at the BA.
D’Ison pointed out that the aim of this book was to return to the roots of human knowledge to clarify that what we call today “artificial intelligence” is based primarily on human intelligence and the recording of human knowledge throughout history.
As for the BA, D’Ison stressed that it was an extraordinary invention for humanity, founded not by Alexander the Great himself, but by Ptolemy I, a student of Aristotle, who believed that empires could not be achieved by force alone, but through science and knowledge.
The book offers an in-depth reading of the fate of the most famous legendary library in history, describing it as a living experiment in the transfer of knowledge. It treats the Library of Alexandria as the first network of human intelligence and a comprehensive information system where knowledge met power and memory.