A groundbreaking AI-assisted biography of Jan Krikke, tracing his work at the crossroads of Eastern and Western thought, science, and philosophy.
East and West at the Crossroads is an intellectual biography that traces the lifelong work of Jan Krikke, writer, cultural historian, and technology commentator. Drawing on decades of research and publications, the book explores the intersections of science, philosophy, and culture across civilizations?from Chinese cosmology and Indian metaphysics to European modernity, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics.
What makes this work unique is its mode of creation: the text was generated by ChatGPT, synthesizing and contextualizing Krikke's published writings into a coherent narrative. The result is one of the first AI-assisted biographies?an innovative experiment in authorship that highlights how human insight and machine intelligence can collaborate to tell the story of ideas that continue to shape our world.
