Mind And Cosmos
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Mind And Cosmos
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Author : Thomas Nagel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-22
Mind And Cosmos written by Thomas Nagel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Summary Of Thomas Nagel S Mind And Cosmos
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Thomas Nagel S Mind And Cosmos written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z with Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The mind-body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the relation between mind, brain, and behavior in living animal organisms, but that it invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and its history. #2 The argument from the failure of psychophysical reductionism is a philosophical one. It argues that because the physical sciences cannot provide a comprehensive theory of everything, any other more or less unified understanding must take in the entire cosmos as we know it. #3 The reductionist neo-Darwinian account of the origin and evolution of life is highly implausible. It is difficult to believe that life as we know it was created through a sequence of physical accidents and natural selection. However, many people have no doubt that accidental genetic variation is enough to support the actual history of evolution by natural selection. #4 The idea that historical understanding is part of science has become familiar through the transformation of biology by evolutionary theory. But more recently, with the acceptance of the big bang, cosmology has also become a historical science. Mind, as a development of life, must be included as the most recent stage of this long cosmological history.
Mind And Cosmos
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Author : Robert Garland Colodny
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Mind And Cosmos written by Robert Garland Colodny and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Physics categories.
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Mind Value And Cosmos
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Author : Andrew M. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-10-14
Mind Value And Cosmos written by Andrew M. Davis and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-14 with Philosophy categories.
Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation, particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship among Mind, Value, and the Cosmos. It draws its stimulus from longstanding “axianoetic” convictions as to the ultimate status of Mind and Value in the western tradition of philosophical theology, and chiefly from the influential modern proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie. What emerges is a relational theory of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are revealed as “ultimate” only in virtue of their relationality. The ultimacy of relationality—what Whitehead calls “mutual immanence”—uniquely illuminates enduring mysteries surrounding: any and all existence, necessary divine existence, the nature of the possible, and the world as actual. As such, it casts fresh light upon the whence and why of God, the World, and their ultimate presuppositions.
Matter Qualia Mind And Cosmos
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Author : Tony Brussat
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-10-06
Matter Qualia Mind And Cosmos written by Tony Brussat and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with categories.
MATTER, QUALIA, MIND AND COSMOS places both science and religion on the sidelines to cheer on the qualiadelic explanation of consciousness. Qualia has been an elephant in the room for 2500 years. The philosophers always notice it but they can never quite explain it away. Now, in an imaginitive and logical description of the relationship between qualia and matter, consciousness has been explained in a way that makes its appearance inevitable. Beginning with the big bang itself, MATTER, QUALIA, MIND AND COSMOS reveals how qualia and matter have interacted to produce all we know from the original laws of physics to the intellectual love of God. Consciousness has been explained and points the way to a new understanding, and therefore a remaking, of the Universe.
One Cosmos Under God The Unification Of Matter Life Mind And Spirit
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Author : Robert Godwin
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House
Release Date : 2004-11-30
One Cosmos Under God The Unification Of Matter Life Mind And Spirit written by Robert Godwin and has been published by Paragon House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-30 with Religion categories.
One Cosmos under God is an extraordinary book that takes the reader on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the whole of creation. It dares to venture where language cannot go, into the "mind of God" prior to the creation, through to the "mind of the saint" who transcends the culturally conditioned ego, escapes history, and merges with the divine mind. This book is intended to be both serious and entertaining, like an intellectual amusement park ride through the whole of creation. It operates under the premise that if God exists, He has a very sophisticated sense of humor, and the book makes many important points in an ironic or punning way, including in the opening "creation story" and the closing "Cosmobliteration" of language into mystical oneness.
Inside The Neolithic Mind
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Author : David Lewis-williams
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Inside The Neolithic Mind written by David Lewis-williams and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with History categories.
Now in compact paperback, a compelling examination of how brain structure and cultural context interacted in the Neolithic period, 10,000 years ago, to produce unique patterns in belief systems. What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the interlinked spirals carved on the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of “birth,” “death,” and “wild” cast light on the changes in relationships between people and animals? In the new compact paperback version of Inside the Neolithic Mind, David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce examine the intricate web of belief, myth, and society in the Neolithic period, arguably the most significant turning point in human history, when agriculture became a way of life and the fractious society that we know today was born. The authors focus on two contrasting times and places: the beginnings in the Near East, and Western Europe. They argue that neurological patterns hardwired into the brain help explain the nature of the art, religion, and society that Neolithic people produced. In proposing provocative new theories about religious motivation in ancient times, they create a fascinating neurological bridge to the mysterious thought-lives of the past and reveal the essence of a momentous period in human history.
Science Mind And Cosmos
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Author : J. Brockman
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix
Release Date : 1995-12-22
Science Mind And Cosmos written by J. Brockman and has been published by Phoenix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-22 with categories.
Mind Value And Cosmos
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Author : Andrew M Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11
Mind Value And Cosmos written by Andrew M Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11 with categories.
"A engaging dialogue with the modern "axionoetic" proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relationality. This relationship Whitehead calls "mutual immanence.""--
Being And The Cosmos
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Author : Robert E. Wood
language : en
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Release Date : 2018-09-19
Being And The Cosmos written by Robert E. Wood and has been published by Catholic University of America Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-19 with Philosophy categories.
Robert Wood’s aim in Being and the Cosmos\i is to reestablish a speculative view of the cosmos that goes back to the ancient Greeks and that corresponds to the holism of contemporary physics. There are two sets of problems in contemporary thought that militate against any such attempt. Most widespread is scientific reductionism in biology and neuroscience that explains awareness in terms of the mechanisms that underlie it. The second is the widespread attack in philosophy itself on speculative holism by deconstruction and anti-foundationalism. In Being and the Cosmos\i, the tack against both is to make explicit the character of the mind that sees and thinks, that actively takes up commitment to the truth available in the disciplines involved. The basic ground of this position rests upon the functioning of the notion of Being that opens up the question of the character of the Whole and the human being’s place in it. Thus position the treatment of the notion of Being as foundation and as orientation toward the Whole between the attack on reductionism and on deconstruction and anti-foundationalism. Wood concludes with a multidimensional sketch of an evolutionary view of the cosmos whose initial phases contain the potentialities for life, sensibility, and intellect as cosmic telos. The holism of contemporary physics has to be reconfigured in terms of this observation. Both reductionists and dualists should know that matter itself has to be re-minded and that mind itself matters.