Table of Contents
FOREWORD by Vasileios Basios 7
INTRODUCTION 17
PART I. THE ARGUMENT FROM QUALITY THINKING 33
Chapter 1. NOT BY FACTS ALONE: 35
Unblocking the flow of self-organization
Chapter 2. CONTEXTUAL WHOLENESS: 51
The qualitative potential in science
Chapter 3. THE FIFTH FORCE: 71
An informed guess about consciousness as self-organising wholeness
Chapter 4. A NEW CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR SCIENCE: 93
Some thoughts on how and where to begin
Chapter 5. LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS: 109
The search for meaning beyond, but not without words
Chapter 6. THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS REVERSALS: 121
From the big bang to date
PART II. A SELF-REFLECTIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 143
Chapter 7. A NEW DELPHIC ORACLE: 145
Underlying the conception and the experience of wholeness
Chapter 8. THE SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE FOR A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: 157
A pre-epistemological approach
Chapter 9. FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS FOR AN AWARE SCIENCE: 167
The extent of philosophical involvement
Chapter 10. DEVELOPING FUNDAMENTAL SENSIBILITIES: 183
Self-reflection and the ways of nature
PART III. A SCIENCE TOWARD THE LIMITS 197
Chapter 11. TRUTH, REALITY AND OBJECTIFICATION: 199
Toward an epistemology and pre-epistemology of consciousness
Chapter 12. TRANS-MODEL ARGUMENTS: 211
Learning how to learn from nature
Chapter 13. TRANS-MODAL ORGANIZATION: 221
Plumbing the opportunities offered by the block universe
Chapter 14. SUB-ATOMIC PHYSICS AND THE BRAIN: 231
Conclusions from Chapters 12 & 13
Chapter 15. RE-WHOLIFYING LANGUAGE: 237
Pre-literate sensibilities in the service of modern science
Chapter 16. WHERE (AND HOW) DO WE GO FROM HERE?: 251
Theoretical and practical considerations
Acknowledgements 267
