The Conscious Universe

Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality

By: Menas Kafatos, Robert Nadeau

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Paperback | 29 October 1999 | Edition Number 2

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A discussion of the implications for philosophy of recent experimental results that confirm some counterintuitive aspects of the way matter behaves. The authors show that a generalised principle of complementarity is pervasive not only in physical theories such as cosmological models of the universe, but also in the construction of all human realities. They discuss in detail Bells inequalities for quantum mechanical measurements as well as recent experiments which imply that even remote parts of the universe are "entangled." They go on to suggest that consciousness can no longer be divorced from the way science operates, and conclude by claiming that this entails a new way of understanding the universe - one that could obviate much of the current conflict between science and religion while providing at the same time a basis for valuation that is better suited for co-ordinating all human experience. This second edition has been completely rewritten and brought up to date.

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Introduction	p. 1
Two Small Clouds: The Emergence of a New Physics	p. 10
The Strange New World of the Quantum: Wave-Particle Dualism	p. 33
Confronting a New Fact of Nature: Bell's Theorem and the Aspect and Gisin Experiments	p. 56
Changing the Rules: A New Epistemology of Science	p. 72
The Logic of Nature: Complementarity and the New Biology	p. 90
Ancient Whispers: The Expanding Universe	p. 105
The Emergence of a New Vision: The Unfolding Universe	p. 119
Quantum Ontologies: Metaphysics in Modern Physics	p. 134
The Ceremony of Innocence: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Dialog between Science and Religion	p. 143
Horizons of Knowledge in Cosmological Models	p. 162
Notes	p. 172
Index	p. 181
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