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Author Durston, Sarah, author.

Title The universe, life and everything ... dialogues on our changing understanding of reality.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (128 pages)
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Summary The way we understand the world we live in is changing. Our traditional understanding is being challenged by developments in physics, including quantum mechanics, and our inability to explain certain complex phenomena such as consciousness. In this book, scholars from a variety of backgrounds discuss how our understanding of our world is expanding to include such phenomena.
Contents 1. What is reality? -- What is our current understanding of reality? -- What has been the approach? -- 2. Why do we need to expand our understanding of reality? -- Consciousness -- Modern-day physics: where "in with the new' does not mean "out with the old' -- We are part of life on our planet -- 3. Paradox of language -- Language may move away from meaning ... -- ... But that does not make facts fictional -- 4. Is reality what we make it? -- Reality: just probabilities taking shape? -- Observer in the system -- Reality as a process -- 5. When efficient causation breaks down ... Synchronicity and meaning -- Synchronicity in our daily lives -- Synchronicity in quantum mechanics -- Are our synchronous experiences quantum? -- Meaning and synchronicity in life -- 6. direction of change -- Reality as a stable process -- Directionality in reality -- Awareness as an inherent feature of reality -- nature of individual consciousness -- Integrating old wisdom into new thinking: the nature of greater consciousness -- 7. Conclusions and possible implications.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Reality.
Consciousness.
Physics.
Metaphysics.
Ontology.
First philosophy.
Réalité.
Conscience.
Physique.
Métaphysique.
Ontologie.
physics.
metaphysics.
ontology (metaphysics)
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
First philosophy
Consciousness
Metaphysics
Ontology
Physics
Reality
Indexed Term Consciousness
Meaning
Reality
Science
Added Author Baggerman, Ton, author Author.
Other Form: Print version: Durston, Sarah. Universe, life and everything ... : dialogues on our changing understanding of reality. Amsterdam : AUP, ©2017 111 pages 9789462987401
ISBN 9789462987401
9462987408
9789048539055 (electronic bk.)
9048539056 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. 10.5117/9789462987401 doi

 
    
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