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The big picture : on the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itself / Sean Carroll.

By: Carroll, Sean M, 1966-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York Dutton 2016Description: 469 páginas : ilustraciones, retratos; 21 centímetrosISBN: 9781101984253Other title: On the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itselfSubject(s): Vida -- Orígen | Significado (Filosofía) | Cosmología | Naturalismo | Descubrimientos en la ciencia | Evolución -- Filosofía | Leyes físicasDDC classification: 576.83
Contents:
Part one: Cosmos. The fundamental nature of reality -- Poetic naturalism -- The world moves by itself -- What determines what will happen? -- Reasons why -- Our universe -- Time's arrow -- Memories and causes -- Part two: Understanding. 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 -- Part three: Essence. 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 -- Part four: Complexity. 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? -- Part five: Thinking. Crawling into consciousness -- The babbling brain -- What thinks? -- The hard problem -- Zombies and stories -- Are photons conscious? -- What acts on what? -- Freedom to choose -- Part six: Caring. Three billion heartbeats -- What is and what ought to be -- Rules and consequences -- Constructing goodness -- Listening to the world -- Existential therapy -- Appendix: The equation underlying you and me.
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Part one: Cosmos. The fundamental nature of reality -- Poetic naturalism -- The world moves by itself -- What determines what will happen? -- Reasons why -- Our universe -- Time's arrow -- Memories and causes -- Part two: Understanding. 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 -- Part three: Essence. 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 -- Part four: Complexity. 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? -- Part five: Thinking. Crawling into consciousness -- The babbling brain -- What thinks? -- The hard problem -- Zombies and stories -- Are photons conscious? -- What acts on what? -- Freedom to choose -- Part six: Caring. Three billion heartbeats -- What is and what ought to be -- Rules and consequences -- Constructing goodness -- Listening to the world -- Existential therapy -- Appendix: The equation underlying you and me.

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