Living as Machine?

This is the title of the new book of Klaus Mainzer (Mentis Verlag, Paderborn, 2010, 274 p.) that I got the other day. Mainzer's view is that of a unified theory of complex dynamical systems which is based on the assumption that all dynamic processes can be described by a computer program. This view embraces systems biology, artificial intelligence, and cyber physical systems. At the end, humans will be able to communicate with thinking machines and will merge into a single super-organism.