How We Come to Be (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2026

0198950179 / 9780198950172

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Hardcover. Our existence as living beings - thinking, feeling, acting - is an extraordinary thing: this book provides a scientifically based account of the entirety of factors that lead to our existence.The text begins with the physical foundations of our existence, examining the cosmological context of the vast expanding and evolving universe, enabling the existence of the Sun and the Earth. It goes on to summarise the underlying physics and chemistry,explaining behaviour on an atomic and molecular level, and considers the nature of biological emergence, arguing that all complex systems are modular hierarchical structures, allowing function toemerge at every level, and both upward and downward interactions occur between emergent levels.The book then goes on to examine fundamental processes such as metabolism, dealing with material and energy needs, and homeostasis, stabilising the system against perturbing influences. At the molecular level, this is all enabled by change of shape of macromolecules, and the text looks at how we come into being by a combination of natural selection and developmental processes,which interact with each other and with physiology.Finally, the book discusses the brain and mind, emphasizing the interaction of rationality and emotions, and examining thenature of mental causation and free will. It then delves into existence on a societal level, showing how social institutions having causal powers, and arguing that society can be understood as a homeostatic feedback system relating welfare to social, economic, political, and legal interactions. All social outcomes are determined crucially by our values, the nature of which can be represented by a spectrum of values ranging from very destructive and selfish to very constructive and generous. Thefinal chapter discusses whether meaning exists in the universe, providing evidence that the answer is yes, arguing for moral realism and the existence of a series of abstract possibility spaces thatform the deep structure of the cosmos. Our existence as living beings - thinking, feeling, acting - is an extraordinary thing. This book provides a scientifically based account of how this happens through interactions between particles and molecules. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
How We Come to Be (Hardcover)
Auteur
George F.R. Ellis
Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0198950179
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780198950172
Illustrateur
Carfora, Mauro

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