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Humanity in a creative universe / Stuart A. Kauffman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199390465
  • 0199390460
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Humanity in a creative universeDDC classification:
  • 576.8 23
LOC classification:
  • QH492 .K38 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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

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