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100 1 $aVidal, Clément,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe beginning and the end :$bthe meaning of life in a cosmological perspective /$cClément Vidal.
264 1 $aCham :$bSpringer,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axxxiv, 379 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aThe frontiers collection,$x1612-3018
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-373) and index.
505 0 $aPart I. Overview of worldviews : 1. The six dimensions of philosophy : First-order questions -- Second-order questions -- Necessity to have a worldview -- Implicit and explicit worldviews -- A cybernetic model of a worldview -- 2. Criteria for worldview comparison : A quest for criteria : Metaphilosophy ; The big three ; Bootstrapping the criteria ; Relativity, not relativism -- Criteria for worldview comparison : Objective consistency ; Scientificity ; Scope ; Subjective consistency ; Personal utility ; Emotionality ; Intersubjective consistency ; Collective utility ; Narrativity -- Assessment test : Testing the components ; Testing the dimensions ; Testing the big three -- 3. Religious, scientific, and philosophical worldviews : Religious worldviews : Intelligent design versus flying spaghetti monsterism ; Psychological and societal strengths of religions ; Failures of tradition -- Scientific worldviews : Systems theory as a universal language for science ; Problem-solving approach ; Universal Darwinism ; Limitations of scientific worldviews -- Philosophical worldviews : The way to philosophical worldviews ; One or several worldviews? ; Analogies for philosophical worldviews ; Nonviolent worldview communication ; The extreme worldview agenda -- Part II. The beginning of the universe : 4. Origins of the origin : Five challenges for the ultimate explanations : Epistemological ; Metaphysical ; Thermodynamic ; Causal ; Infinity -- The point as a cognitive attractor : Origin with foundation ; Points in everyday life ; God's point ; Big Bang's point -- The cycle as a cognitive attractor ; Origin without foundation ; Cycles in everyday life ; Big Bang(s) cycles ; Objections against cycles -- Points, cycles and beyond : More attractors ; Line and combinations ; Cosmological models -- 5. Capturing free parameters : Analogical reasoning in science -- The physical universe -- The mathematical universe -- The computational universe -- The biological universe -- 6. The fine-tuning conjecture : Fine-tuning fallacies : Probabilistic fallacies ; Physical fallacies ; Fine-tuning disproofs -- Fine-tuning and other issues : Fine-tuning and free parameters ; Fine-tuning and parameter sensitivity ; ; Fine-tuning and metaphysical issues ; Fine-tuning and anthropic principles ; Fine-tuning and observational selection effects ; Fine-tuning and teleology ; Fine-tuning and God's existence -- The cosmic evolution equation : Possible universe ; Possible cosmic outcomes ; Robustness in cosmic evolution ; Artificial cosmogenesis -- Classical fine-tuning explanations : Skepticism ; Necessity ; Fecundity ; God of the gaps ; Chance of the gaps ; WAP of the gaps ; Multiverse ; Design -- Part III. Our future in the universe : 7. The future of scientific simulations : Toward a simulation of an entire universe ; Increase of computing resources ; Bridging gaps in cosmic evolution ; Replaying the tape of the universe ; Real-world and artificial-world modeling ; The simulation hypothesis -- 8. Cosmological selections : Evolutionary selection : Biological selection ; Cosmological selection ; Biological and cosmological fitness -- Cosmological natural selection : History ; Theory ; Objections -- Cosmological Artificial Selection : History ; From natural to artificial cosmological selection ; Six levels of universe making ; Objections: design and creation ; Objection: CAS versus other fine-tuning explanations ; Objection: the causal issue ; Objection: the thermodynamic issue ; Objection: epistemological issues: science of philosophy? Objection: are simulation and realization possible? ; Objection: what motivation? ; Objection: no freedom in CAS? ; Four roads to Cosmological Artificial Selection ; The case for CAS -- 9. High energy astrobiology : Criteria for artificiality : What is your methodology fallacy? : Zen SETI ; The case for postbiology ; Global criteria ; Thermodynamic criteria ; Living systems criteria -- Two scales for civilizational development : Kardashev Scale: the energetic increase ; Barrow Scale: the inward manipulation -- Black holes as attractors for intelligence : Unknown black hole technology ; Energetic ; Societal ; Scientific ; Computational ; Philosophical -- Signs of starivores? : Two scales argument ; A partial visit to the binary zoo ; General arguments ; Thermodynamic arguments ; Living systems arguments ; Are pulsars artificial output transducers? -- Objections : Is it new? ; Dyson spheres versus starivores ; All all binaries extraterrestrial life? ; Postbiology? Are you serious? ; Is high temperature livable? ; Will we become starivores? ; Starivores' missing mass ; The explosive objection ; The candle objection ; The fridge objection -- 10. Cosmological ethics and immortality : Thermodynamic values : Information ethics ; Thermodynamic ethics -- Evolutionary values : The fallacious naturalistic fallacy ; Egoism-altruism trade-off ; Stability-adaptability trade-off ; Specialist-generalist trade-off ; Exploration-exploitation trade-off ; Competition-cooperation trade-off ; r-K selection trade-off -- Developmental values : Cybernetic values ; Progress in evolutionary progress ; Developmental values for humans ; Developmental values for societies ; Universal thermodynamics evolutionary developmental values? -- Voyage to five immortalities : Spiritual immortality ; Individual immortality ; Creative immortality ; Evolutionary immortality ; Cosmological immortality -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: A cosmic evolutionary worldview -- Appendix II: Argumentative maps.
650 0 $aCosmology.
650 0 $aLife.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
650 0 $aPhilosophy and science.
650 7 $aCosmology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00880600
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650 7 $aLife.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01198505
650 7 $aPhilosophy and science.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01060832
650 7 $aKosmologi.$2sao
650 7 $aUniversum.$2sao
650 7 $aLivets uppkomst.$2sao
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVidal, Clément.$tBeginning and the end.$dCham [Switzerland] : Springer, [2014]$z9783319050621$w(OCoLC)880420817
830 0 $aFrontiers collection.$x1612-3018
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1406/2014932829-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1406/2014932829-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1406/2014932829-d.html
852 00 $bbar$hBD511$i.V53 2014