The Universe, Life and Everything... : Dialogues on our Changing Understanding of Reality / / Sarah Durston and Ton Baggerman.
Our current understanding of our world is nearly 350 years old. It stems from the ideas of Descartes and Newton and has brought us many great things, including modern science and increases in wealth, health and everyday living standards. Furthermore, it is so ingrained in our daily lives that we hav...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020 ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (111 pages) |
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Table of 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.