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?. |