Meaning Of Life And The Universe: Transforming

by Mae-wan Ho

Overview

The scope of this extraordinary selection of essays, distilled from nearly a thousand works that the author has written, is literally the entire universe and universe of knowledge. It charts the author's quest for the meaning of life faced with a dominant knowledge system she regards as incoherent, meaningless, and often acting against people and planet. She shows how contemporary scientific findings across all disciplines already provide an authentic knowledge system that's coherent with life and the universe. The aim is to transform science thoroughly from inspiration to research to applications that work for people and planet.This book is simply unique in its scope and content. There is no equivalent. The author surveys and explains contemporary science in depth ranging over philosophy, anthropology, quantum physics and chemistry, neurobiology, psychology, genetics and epigenetics, cosmology, art, humanities, and mathematics. It presents a truly holistic view of nature, with profound implications for life in the social, political, and personal realm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813108868
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/20/2017
Pages:	500
Sales rank:	786,679
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Sources xi

Anthropology, Philosophy & Psychology 1

1 Natural Being and Coherent Society 3

2 Towards an Indigenous Western Science: Causality in the Universe of Coherent Space-Time Structures 32

3 Organism and Psyche in a Participatory Universe 80

Evolution, Genetics and Epigenetics 105

4 Epigenetics and Generative Dynamics 107

5 Nurturing Nature 141

6 No Genes for Intelligence in the Fluid Genome 165

7 Natural versus Artificial Genetic Modification and Perils of GMOs 197

8 Non-Random Directed Mutations and Quantum Electrodynamics 228

Consciousness and Neuroscience 239

9 The Biology of Free Will 241

10 Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience 267

11 Why Say "Consciousness"? 285

Art and Science 289

12 Significant Form in Science and Art 291

13 Why Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty 310

Thermodynamics of Sustainability 325

14 Sustainable Cities as Organisms: A Circular Thermodynamics Perspective 327

Quantum Electrodynamics of Water and Life 347

15 Water the Means, Medium and Message of Life 349

16 Illuminating Water and Life: Essay in Honour of Emilio Del Giudice 371

Fractal Mathematics and the Fabric of Nature 403

17 Story of Phi 405

18 Space-Time is Fractal and Quantum Coherent in the Golden Mean 430

Index 467