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Humanity in a creative universe / Stuart A. Kauffman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kauffman, Stuart A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolutionary developmental biology.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Prologue: Reclaiming enchantment
- Hinge of history ; The foundations : the emergence of reductive materialism and the loss of our humanity
- Part I. Beyond the entailing laws of physics and reductive materialism. The nonergodic universe above the level of atoms : an "antientropic process" in the universe ; A creative universe : no entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere ; A creative universe : the social world
- Part II. Toward the subjective pole. Are we zombies with, at best, witnessing minds? ; A new proposed dualism : res potentia and res extensa, linked by quantum measurement ; Beyond the stalemate : answering Descartes with the poised realm ; Toward a quantum, poised realm, classical theory of mind-body ; Toward an ontological basis for a responsible free will ; The strong free will theorem : toward the subjective pole ; The subjective pole and the quantum enigma ; The creative and unentailed quantum evolution of the universe ; Beyond Pythagoras : must we have foundations?
- Part III. Who are we knowing, doing, living humans in a creative universe in late modernity? Self-organization in the origin of life, agency, and ontogeny ; Knowing and being in the world, aspects of our humanity ; Beyond modernity? : can we partially co-create a woven global civilization that serves our humanity?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-280) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780199390465
- 0199390460
- Publisher Number:
- 99968641062
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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