Neither Ghost Nor Machine

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Neither Ghost Nor Machine

Author	: Jeremy Sherman (Writer on biophilosophy)
File Size	: 41,7 Mb
Publisher	: Unknown
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 April 2024
ISBN	: 0231173326
Pages	: 295 pages

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Neither Ghost Nor Machine by Jeremy Sherman (Writer on biophilosophy) Book PDF Summary

Jeremy Sherman distills Terrence Deacon's breakthrough natural science hypothesis for the emergence of agents and agency, selves and aims in an otherwise aimless universe. The theory cuts a new path through the dualistic spirit vs. mechanism debate, unifying the hard and soft sciences and suggesting new solutions to philosophical mysteries.

Neither Ghost Nor Machine by Jeremy Sherman (Writer on biophilosophy),Terrence Deacon

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Neither Ghost nor Machine by Jeremy Sherman

If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation—that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was somehow breathed into matter—and instead accept that selves are

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Incomplete Nature How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W. Deacon

A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry. As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory of Everything" that appears to be emerging

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The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent

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William Blake the Single Vision and Newton s Sleep by Keith Davies

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poiēsis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely explored in this book. By examining the views of William Blake and other poets in the context of twentieth-century philosophers Hannah Arendt, Jacob Bronowski, Martin Heidegger,

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The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: “These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight” (The New Republic). Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy, and language. Presented here are his

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The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy

Two fascinating philosophical inquiries from the “dazzlingly gifted” New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer (USA Today). Winner of the National Book Award for The Moviegoer, the Southern writer Walker Percy possessed “an intellectual range and rigor few American novelists can match” (The New

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Organizational Knowledge in the Making by Gerardo Patriotta

Taking evidence from Fiat, Patriotta argues that organizational knowledge must be re-thought from an action based perspective & a new vocabulary is needed for understanding knowledge- orientated phenomena in organizations.

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