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Natural fabrications: science, emergence and consciousness

By William , SEAGER

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2012
ISBN
9783642295980, 9783642295997, 3642295983
ISSN
1612-3018
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3405138 bytes)
Series
Frontiers collection
Pages
viii, 262 pages: illustrations; 24 cm\263
Time added
2020-11-29 04:21:09

Description

The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities. The almost infinite variety and complexity of the world is thus the product of emergence. But the concept of emergence is fraught with controversy and confusion. This book ponders the question of how emergence should be understood within the scientific picture, and whether a complete vision of the world can be attained that includes consciousness.

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