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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 includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, and purposes that make us what we are. This is an unacceptable omission. We need a "theory of everything" that does not leave it absurd that we exist. Incomplete Nature begins by accepting what other theories try to deny: that, although mental contents do indeed lack the physical properties that are assumed to be necessary for something to phave physical consequences in the world, they are still entirely products of physical processes. And they have an unprecedented kind of causal power that is intrinsically incomplete and therefore unlike anything that physics and chemistry alone have so far explained. The book's radically challenging conclusion is that we are made of these specific absenses--such stuff as dreams are made on--and that what is not immediately present can be as physically potent as that which is. It offers a figure/background shift that shows how even meanings and values can be understood as legitimate components of the physical world.
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Origin, Brain, Life, Consciousness, Phenomenology, Biogenesis, Physiology, Brain, evolution, Life, originShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter
2013, W.W. Norton
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Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter
2012, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Originally published: 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.
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