Fitness Of The Cosmos For Life
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Author | : John D. Barrow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521871026 |
An interdisciplinary book for scientists interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe, first published in 2007.
Author | : John D. Barrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biochemistry |
ISBN | : 9780511370618 |
Interdisciplinary book for scientists interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe.
Author | : John D. Barrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780511371080 |
Interdisciplinary book for scientists interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe.
Author | : Carol E. Cleland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2019-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 052187324X |
Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.
Author | : Thomas Nagel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2012-11-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199919755 |
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Author | : Gary Lachman |
Publisher | : Floris Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1782500227 |
Drawing on esoteric, spritual and philosophical thought, this book cononsiders the all-important question -- why are we here? -- and offers a counter-argument to the current nihilsm prevalent in our world.
Author | : Lawrence Joseph Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Adaptation (Biology) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ervin Laszlo |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1594776512 |
Presents a revolutionary new theory that bridges the divide between science and spirituality • Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same reality • Includes contributions from Jane Goodall, Ed Mitchell, Stanislav Grof, Ralph Abraham, and Christian de Quincy, among others What scientists are now finding at the outermost frontiers of every field is overturning all the basic premises concerning the nature of matter and reality. The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence--what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.
Author | : Michael Denton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2002-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0743237625 |
A leading evolutionary thinker, biologist, and medical researcher asks the question: "Could life elsewhere be substantially different from life on Earth?"--and builds a step-by-step argument for human inevitability. 65 illustrations and photos.
Author | : Lee Smolin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 1999-03-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199839360 |
Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang and a new universe. Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce. The result would be a cosmology according to which life is a natural consequence of the fundamental principles on which the universe has been built, and a science that would give us a picture of the universe in which, as the author writes, "the occurrence of novelty, indeed the perpetual birth of novelty, can be understood." Smolin is one of the leading cosmologists at work today, and he writes with an expertise and force of argument that will command attention throughout the world of physics. But it is the humanity and sharp clarity of his prose that offers access for the layperson to the mind bending space at the forefront of today's physics.