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Autore: | Kauffman Stuart A. |
Titolo: | Humanity in a creative universe / / Stuart A. Kauffman |
Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina: | 576.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Evolutionary developmental biology |
Evolution (Biology) | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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?. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Humanity in a creative universe |
ISBN: | 0-19-939047-9 |
0-19-939046-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819399303321 |
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