The big picture on the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itself
"Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our ho...
| Main Author: | Carroll, Sean M., 1966- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Dutton,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The fundamental nature of reality
- Poetic naturalism
- The world moves by itself
- What determines what will happen next?
- Reasons why
- Our universe
- Time's arrow
- Memories and causes
- Learning about the world
- Updating our knowledge
- Is it okay to doubt everything?
- Reality emerges
- What exists, and what is illusion?
- Planets of belief
- Accepting uncertainty
- What can we know about the world without actually looking at it?
- Who am I?
- Abducting God
- How much we know
- The quantum realm
- Interpreting quantum mechanics
- The core theory
- The stuff of which we are made
- The effective theory of the everyday world
- Why does the universe exist?
- Body and soul
- Death is the end
- The universe in a cup of coffee
- Light and life
- Funneling energy
- Spontaneous organization
- The origin and purpose of life
- Evolution's bootstraps
- Searching through the landscape
- Emergent purpose
- Are we the point?
- Crawling into consciousness
- The babbling brain
- What thinks?
- The hard problem
- Zombies and stories
- Are photons conscious?
- What acts on what?
- Freedom to choose
- Three billion heartbeats
- What is and what ought to be
- Rules and consequences
- Constructing goodness
- Listening to the world
- Existential therapy.