Humanity in a creative universe / / Stuart A. Kauffman
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| Autore: |
Kauffman Stuart A.
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| Titolo: |
Humanity in a creative universe / / Stuart A. Kauffman
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| 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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