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The Universe, Life and Everything ... : Dialogues on Our Changing Understanding of Reality.
Our current understanding of our world is nearly 350 years old. It stems from the ideas of Descartes and Newton and has brought us many great things, including modern science and increases in wealth, health and everyday living standards. Furthermore, it is so ingrained in our daily lives that we hav...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; 1 What is reality?; What is our current understanding of reality?; What has been the approach?; 2 Why do we need to expand our understanding of reality?; Consciousness; Modern-day physics: Where 'in with the new' does not mean 'out with the old'; We are part of life on our planet; 3 The paradox of language; Language may move away from meaning ... ; ... but that does not make facts fictional; 4 Is reality what we make it?; Reality: Just probabilities taking shape?; The observer in the system; Reality as a process
- 5 When efficient causation breaks down ... synchronicity and meaningSynchronicity in our daily lives; Synchronicity in quantum mechanics; Are our synchronous experiences quantum?; Meaning and synchronicity in life; 6 The direction of change; Reality as a stable process; Directionality in reality; Awareness as an inherent feature of reality; The nature of individual consciousness; Integrating old wisdom into new thinking: The nature of greater consciousness; 7 Conclusions and possible implications; Lexicon; Acknowledgements; References & further reading; Index; List of illustrations
- Figure 1 Jolyon Troscianko: ConsciousnessFigure 2 Sidney Harris: Cosmology marches on; Figure 3 Sidney Harris: Hallelujah; Figure 4 Sidney Harris: Factoids; Figure 5 Nick Kim: Photon identity crisis; Figure 6 Andrew Toos: Keep it simple