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Title: The Non-Local Universe: The New Physics and Matters of the Mind by Robert Nadeau, Minas C. Kafatos ISBN: 0-19-513256-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nonlocality and epistemology
Comment: Enticing and most suggestive work connecting the recent 1997 empirical confirmation of nonlocality suggested by Bell's theorem, and the realm of both biology and postmodernism. The author's begin by suggesting the classical problem of Cartesian dualism is to be resolved by this new view of mind in relation to physics. While there is certainly a gateway to a new perspective on this tragic division, it is not clear how the broader confusions of ethics and values can enter either the classical or postclassical views of physical systems, yet the basic insight seems fruitful indeed on the way to a new synthesis. The book weighs in with Bohr's Copenhagen perspective resolving the long debate with Einstein. The book then proceeds to a provocative consideration of the limitations of current Darwinian theory, still enmeshed in the classical paradigm, concluding with a hope this new unification will help to heal the two cultures divide. I am always left to wonder quizzically at renewed hopes of finally bridging the Cartesian divide, for the problem is in part one of false terminology, and the lack of self-perception, more than self-division. The great Indian 'metaphysics' of Samkhya never had this problem because instead of two entities, it had three, all material. The division of mind and matter is a confusion of terms, and thus not open to solution by physics, a most debatable point itself, to be sure. None of this really negates the very fruitful connection now shown between mind and physical reality demonstrated in the new physics. Excellent book, one way or the other. May be read Kant also. Cf. also, Quantum Reality, Nick Herbert The Ghost in the Adam, P.C.W. Davies Appearance and Reality, Peter Kosso Quantum Dialogue, Martha Besser
Rating: 3
Summary: Hard pounding
Comment: I found this book frustrating...because inarticulate. For example their description of temporal non-locality is incomplete and I defy anyone to clearly understand the experiment and its implications from what is said in the text. I agree with those reviewers who say that the authors never use one word when three could be used instead.
That having been said, the underlying issues are fascinating, and some of the discussion so well-informed and thought-provoking (eg about the inadequacies of simple darwinism)...that it is worth the struggle. However I suggest that the book would have been far stronger if it had begun with the "facts" ie the experimental results explained extremely clearly...and moved onto a discussion of aspects of the implications of the "facts".
Rating: 1
Summary: The new age "epistemology" and ...
Comment: ...This book should be titled "Alice in the land of misinformation" ... or .. "Tao of Sentimental Physics"
Just another bad science book for artisans and paisans ...
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Title: The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life by Evan Harris, Phd Walker, Evan Harris Walker ISBN: 0738204366 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World by Maggie Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Amit Goswami ISBN: 0874777984 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness: A Physical Basis for Immaterialism by Samuel Avery ISBN: 0964629100 Publisher: Compari Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm ISBN: 0415289793 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality by Minas Kafatos, Robert Nadeau ISBN: 0387988653 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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