Are you agnostic? Religious? Or, by default, of atheistic/ materialistic faith? Whichever mind-set you inhabit, this book is for you. Science and the Soul interprets the world in terms of a framework called Natural Dialectic. Within this ‘philosophical machine’ it coordinates the major scientific disciplines of physics, psychology, biology and information technology – but not necessarily with conventional results. For example, according to materialism’s modernistic view everything is physical – correct, of course, unless a metaphysical constituent exists. Could any immaterial factor (say, conscious perception, informant reason or mathematics) be discounted by an intellectual whim or, on the other hand, exert a universal influence? Natural Dialectic’s simple, binary oscillation treats child-like questions that have excited and still excite the whole of philosophy and science.How did cosmos start? Who in heaven’s name am I? Where on earth did you spring from? What, if any, is the object of brief travel through the nothingness of time and space? Can the theory of evolution and, therefore, materialism withstand incisive analysis? If you’re intrigued then come with Science and the Soul upon a voyage of discovery. Welcome aboard (in neutral, alphabetical order) all Buddhists, Christians, Darwinists, Hindus, humanists, Jews, materialists, Muslims, scientific atheists, Taoists and other sorts of faith or lack of it! Armed with this tour de force (and its companion elaborations called Adam and Evolution, A Mutant Ape? and A Potted Grammar of Natural Dialectic) read on.
** The print version contains a detailed Index. This you are invited to regard as a web, a kind of sub-text whose indented entries make connections all across the volume’s natural world. At the same time each of several volumes of the Cosmic Connections series (www.cosmicconnections.co.uk) sheds, as if a prism’s angle has been shifted, new light on the case outlined by Science and the Soul.
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Preface
Book 0: ABC and Information
Chapter 0: Anti-parallel Perspectives
Chapter 1: Natural Dialectic’s ABC
Chapter 2: First Principles
Chapter 3: Hierarchical Perspective
Chapter 4: Truth, Appearance and Reality
Chapter 5: The Immaterial Element
Chapter 6: Mind, Machines and Mind Machines
Book 1: Physics
Chapter 7: Lady Luck and Lord Deliberate
Chapter 8: The Principles of a Unified Theory of Matter
Chapter 9: Lady Luck and Lord Deliberate
Chapter 10: Time
Chapter 11: Energy
Chapter 12: Magnificent Mythology
Book 2: Psychology
Active Information (Psychological)
Chapter 13: Consciousness
Chapter 14: Five States of Mind
Passive Information (Psychological)
Chapter 15: Subconsciousness
Chapter 16: Archetype
Chapter 17: Caduceus
Chapter 18: Death
Book 3: Biology
Passive Information (Biological)
Chapter 19: Unified Biology
Chapter 20: Alchemy
Chapter 21: Cell Sell
Chapter 22: Neo-Darwinism Isn’t Fit
Chapter 23: Neo-Darwinism Doesn’t Work
Chapter 24: An Impossible Dream
Chapter 25: Extra-Grand Mythology
Book 4: Community
Chapter 26: Community/ Society
Chapter 27: Up and Away
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