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Pathways of chance / F. David Peat.
Van Pelt Library Q143.P318 P43 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peat, F. David, 1938-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peat, F. David, 1938-2017.
- Peat, F. David.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pari : Pari ; Milton Keynes : Lightning Source [distributor], 2007.
- Summary:
- F. David Peat is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers around today. His latest book Pathways of Chance is a rich, inquiring and highly readable journey from the creative buzz of his native Liverpool in the sixties, to a Native American talking circle. He meets some of the most facinating minds of twentieth-century science and culture: David Bohm, Roger Penrose, Bertrand Russell, Sir Michael Tippett, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor. He reflects on the elusive nature of quantum reality, the way language shapes our lives, the world of the Blackfoot, and his life in a medieval Italian village. Ultimately, Pathways of Chance is a meditation upon the power of those twin forces, purpose and accident, within all our lives.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Growing up in Liverpool 17
- Excursion I Sensing the body 24
- Chapter 2 Ideas and reflections 30
- Excursion II Quantum strangeness 44
- Chapter 3 Research and diversions 49
- Excursion III The many-body problem 54
- Chapter 4 Oh Canada! 58
- Excursion IV Language and Science 68
- Chapter 5 Radio days 73
- Excursion V Schrodinger's cat or the quantum measurement problem 79
- Chapter 6 Re-encountering Carl Jung 83
- Excursion VI Synchronicity 93
- Chapter 7 Meeting the Blackfoot 99
- Excursion VII Dialogue 105
- Chapter 8 David Bohm and the implicate order 109
- Excursion VIII Active information and quantum mind 114
- Chapter 9 Meetings with artists 118
- Excursion IX Art and inscape 126
- Chapter 10 Return to Pari 134
- Excursion X Gentle action and global solutions 140
- Chapter 11 The Pari Center for New Learning 146
- Excursion XI Ethics and actions 153.
- ISBN:
- 9788890196010
- 8890196017
- 8890196009
- 9788890196003
- OCLC:
- 73957459
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