Author: Christophe Finipolscie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995649118
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Nature and Origin of Physical Reality
Author: Christophe Finipolscie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995649101
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995649101
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Nature of Physical Reality
Author: Subhash Kak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988207070
Category : Paradox
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"The book presents a summary of the current scientific understanding of the physical world, and shows that man's questioning across the ages has had continuity in terms of preoccupation with paradoxes."--
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ISBN: 9781988207070
Category : Paradox
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"The book presents a summary of the current scientific understanding of the physical world, and shows that man's questioning across the ages has had continuity in terms of preoccupation with paradoxes."--
The Nature of the Physical World
Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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NATURE OF PHYSICAL REALITY
Author: H. MARGENAU
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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The Nature of Physical Reality
Author: Henry Margenau
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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The nature of physical reality
Author: John C. Polkinghorne
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Psycho-physical Nature of Reality
Author: Johan Hendrik Greidanus
Publisher: B. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher: B. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Found and the Made
Author: Dan Bruiger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351482688
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as passive and inert. Dan Bruiger argues that if nature is real, it must transcend human representations. In particular, it can be expected to self-organize in ways that elude a mechanist treatment.This interdisciplinary study addresses several key areas: the "crisis" in modern physics and cosmology; the limits and historical, psychological, and religious roots of mechanistic thought; and the mutual effects of the scientific worldview upon society's relationship to nature. Bruiger demonstrates that there is still little place outside biology for systems that actively self-organize or self-define. Instead of appealing to "multiverses" to resolve the mysteries of fine-tuning, he suggests that cosmologists look toward self-organizing processes. He also states that physics is hampered by its external focus and should become more self-reflective. If scientific understanding can go beyond a stance of prediction and control, it could lead to a relationship with nature more amenable to survival.The Found and the Made fills a void between popular science writing and philosophy. It will appeal to naturalists, environmentalists, science buffs, professionals, and students of cultural history, evolutionary psychology, gender studies, and philosophy of mind.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351482688
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature. It questions concepts such as determinism, reversibility, equilibrium, and the isolated system, and challenges the view of physical reality as passive and inert. Dan Bruiger argues that if nature is real, it must transcend human representations. In particular, it can be expected to self-organize in ways that elude a mechanist treatment.This interdisciplinary study addresses several key areas: the "crisis" in modern physics and cosmology; the limits and historical, psychological, and religious roots of mechanistic thought; and the mutual effects of the scientific worldview upon society's relationship to nature. Bruiger demonstrates that there is still little place outside biology for systems that actively self-organize or self-define. Instead of appealing to "multiverses" to resolve the mysteries of fine-tuning, he suggests that cosmologists look toward self-organizing processes. He also states that physics is hampered by its external focus and should become more self-reflective. If scientific understanding can go beyond a stance of prediction and control, it could lead to a relationship with nature more amenable to survival.The Found and the Made fills a void between popular science writing and philosophy. It will appeal to naturalists, environmentalists, science buffs, professionals, and students of cultural history, evolutionary psychology, gender studies, and philosophy of mind.
The Psycho-physical Nature of Reality
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ISBN: 9780720482454
Category : Reality
Languages : de
Pages : 56
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ISBN: 9780720482454
Category : Reality
Languages : de
Pages : 56
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From Illusions to Reality
Author: Vesselin Petkov
Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press
ISBN: 1927763002
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The greatest mystery in the world is its very existence. In our intellectual development, we all reach a turning point when we start asking the perennial existential questions: "What is the world?"; "What am I?"; "What is the meaning of the existence of the world and myself?". As the German philosopher Schopenhauer put it: "The lower a man stands in intellectual respects the less of a riddle does existence seem to him... but, the clearer his consciousness becomes the more the problem grasps him in its greatness." This book explores what fundamental physics tells us about the physical world and how the scientific picture of what exists often differs disturbingly from the "common sense" view based on the way our senses reflect the world. Centuries-old illusions are identified by showing that they contradict experimentally-confirmed results of modern physics, which clears the way toward deeper understanding of reality. The greatest illusion that the world exists only at the present moment of time has been realized by many great thinkers, but so far the human race has been unable to free itself from it, prompting Einstein to write this: "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Getting rid of such stubbornly persistent illusions by open-mindedly examining the implications of modern physics for the physical world can help us rise above the fog of everyday life and see Nature the way she herself is.
Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press
ISBN: 1927763002
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The greatest mystery in the world is its very existence. In our intellectual development, we all reach a turning point when we start asking the perennial existential questions: "What is the world?"; "What am I?"; "What is the meaning of the existence of the world and myself?". As the German philosopher Schopenhauer put it: "The lower a man stands in intellectual respects the less of a riddle does existence seem to him... but, the clearer his consciousness becomes the more the problem grasps him in its greatness." This book explores what fundamental physics tells us about the physical world and how the scientific picture of what exists often differs disturbingly from the "common sense" view based on the way our senses reflect the world. Centuries-old illusions are identified by showing that they contradict experimentally-confirmed results of modern physics, which clears the way toward deeper understanding of reality. The greatest illusion that the world exists only at the present moment of time has been realized by many great thinkers, but so far the human race has been unable to free itself from it, prompting Einstein to write this: "the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Getting rid of such stubbornly persistent illusions by open-mindedly examining the implications of modern physics for the physical world can help us rise above the fog of everyday life and see Nature the way she herself is.