Humanity in a creative universe /
Kauffman, Stuart A.,
Humanity in a creative universe / Stuart A. Kauffman. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Humanity in a Creative Universe; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Reclaiming Enchantment; 1. Hinge of History; 2. The Foundations: The Emergence of Reductive Materialism and the Loss of Our Humanity; Part I: Beyond the Entailing Laws of Physics and Reductive Materialism; 3. The Nonergodic Universe Above the Level of Atoms: An "Antientropic Process" in the Universe; 4. A Creative Universe: No Entailing Laws, but Enablement in the Evolution of the Biosphere; 5. A Creative Universe: The Social World; Part II: Toward the Subjective Pole 6. Are We Zombies with, at Best, Witnessing Minds? 7. A New Proposed Dualism: Res Potentia and Res Extensa, Linked by Quantum Measurement; 8. Beyond the Stalemate: Answering Descartes with the Poised Realm; 9. Toward a Quantum, Poised Realm, Classical Theory of Mind-Body; 10. Toward an Ontological Basis for a Responsible Free Will; 11. The Strong Free Will Theorem: Toward the Subjective Pole; 12. The Subjective Pole and the Quantum Enigma; 13. The Creative and Unentailed Quantum Evolution of the Universe; 14. Beyond Pythagoras: Must We Have Foundations? Part III: Who Are We Knowing, Doing, Living Humans in a Creative Universe in Late Modernity? 15. Self-Organization in the Origin of Life, Agency, and Ontogeny; 16. Knowing and Being in the World, Aspects of Our Humanity; 17. Beyond Modernity? Can We Partially Co-Create a Woven Global Civilization That Serves Our Humanity?; References; Index
9780199390465 0199390460
Evolutionary developmental biology.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Evolutionary developmental biology.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QH492 / .K38 2016eb
576.8
Humanity in a creative universe / Stuart A. Kauffman. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Humanity in a Creative Universe; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Reclaiming Enchantment; 1. Hinge of History; 2. The Foundations: The Emergence of Reductive Materialism and the Loss of Our Humanity; Part I: Beyond the Entailing Laws of Physics and Reductive Materialism; 3. The Nonergodic Universe Above the Level of Atoms: An "Antientropic Process" in the Universe; 4. A Creative Universe: No Entailing Laws, but Enablement in the Evolution of the Biosphere; 5. A Creative Universe: The Social World; Part II: Toward the Subjective Pole 6. Are We Zombies with, at Best, Witnessing Minds? 7. A New Proposed Dualism: Res Potentia and Res Extensa, Linked by Quantum Measurement; 8. Beyond the Stalemate: Answering Descartes with the Poised Realm; 9. Toward a Quantum, Poised Realm, Classical Theory of Mind-Body; 10. Toward an Ontological Basis for a Responsible Free Will; 11. The Strong Free Will Theorem: Toward the Subjective Pole; 12. The Subjective Pole and the Quantum Enigma; 13. The Creative and Unentailed Quantum Evolution of the Universe; 14. Beyond Pythagoras: Must We Have Foundations? Part III: Who Are We Knowing, Doing, Living Humans in a Creative Universe in Late Modernity? 15. Self-Organization in the Origin of Life, Agency, and Ontogeny; 16. Knowing and Being in the World, Aspects of Our Humanity; 17. Beyond Modernity? Can We Partially Co-Create a Woven Global Civilization That Serves Our Humanity?; References; Index
9780199390465 0199390460
Evolutionary developmental biology.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)
Evolutionary developmental biology.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QH492 / .K38 2016eb
576.8