Автор: Drouin Jean-Marc Название: A Philosophy of the Insect ISBN: 0231175787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231175784 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 11088.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The philosopher and historian of science Jean-Marc Drouin contends that insects pose a fundamental challenge to philosophy. Exploring the questions of what insects are and what scientific, aesthetic, ethical, and historical relationships they have with humanity, he argues that they force us to reconsider our ideas of the animal and the social.
It's amazing how dominant information is in the modern world. In fact, it's so dominant that it begs the question, "What if information does not only define and shape our world--what if it is in fact reality"? The 1999 film The Matrix and its sequels were predicated on just this idea.
Of late, the sultans of Silicon Valley have become obsessed with this idea, which is known as the simulation hypothesis. Elon Musk himself has remarked, "There's a billion-to-one chance we're living in base reality." Perhaps information doesn't just define and shape our reality. Perhaps it's entangled in the fabric of reality, through the mind of the observer of the participatory universe. Consider the philosophical thought experiment: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It takes a mind to experience reality.
In this book, I chronicle the journey that led me to discover the missing link between science and spirituality: the information-bit. Legendary theoretical physicist John Wheeler's "it-from-bit" theory and my own Quantum Mind model are ultimately rooted in the same thing: data. Wheeler suggested that physical reality--the "it"--is based on patterns of information, or "bits." I theorize that our actions in the real world unfold in sync with underlying information-thought patterns that exist only in the mind. Buddha once said, "The mind is everything. What you think, you become." This bi-directional dialogue across the mind-body connection may well occur at the Planck scale, where the transition between quantum physics--the bit--and classical physics--the it--operates.
But where do the mind and body meet? Purpose, which emerges from knowing oneself, unifies the wisdom of the East with the pragmatism of the West. The energy derived from what has meaning to the self is the fuel to manifest the bit arrangement contained in our minds into physical reality via our bodies. If its point of origin is love, this route leads to inner peace and harmony and draws a vector unifying the mind, heart, and body. The Matrix Explained reveals how.
Автор: Connelly Jim Название: Talk of the Town: Warragul/Drouin ISBN: 0992454794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992454791 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1966.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A series of quirky observations on life in West Gippsland from one who has lived a good part of his life amongst the places and people he now reflects on. Recommended especially for those who have a well-developed sense of humour. Reading recommendation: all ages.
Автор: Drouin Roger Real Название: No Other Way ISBN: 193732706X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781937327064 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A SEARCH FOR A BIRD BELIEVED EXTINCT TURNS INTO A TEST OF CONSCIENCE AND DEDICATION TO SAVE ONE OF THE LAST UNTOUCHED WILD LANDS. Praise for Roger Real Drouin and NO OTHER WAY "Drouin's debut novel...is lyrical and poetic, soft and whispering, telling us, 'It is a hope as light and fragile as the shadows flying through the tall grass"'-Grey Sparrow Journal " His prose is fluid and poetic. Drouin is definitely a writer to keep an eye on."-Martin Lastrapes, author of Inside the Outside, winner of the Paris Book Festival Grand Prize. "...writes with a great sensitivity for detail...brings the reader deep into a natural setting."-Murrary Dunlap, author of Bastard Blue and Alabama. "Drouin writes about nature with an innate sense of poetry...No Other Way soars for a thousand miles."-Steel Toe Review Roger Real Drouin manages to capture the natural beauty of nature in nothing more than words and to do so in abundance....a gem in the literary world."-Dan Schwartz, author of No Cure for Nature "...beautifully textured images...staggering metaphors...magic still exists."-Sheldon Lee Compton, author of The Same Terrible Storm As Samuel Leaton searches for the believed-extinct Northern Stilted Curlew, he struggles with the memory of his wife, who died a year earlier from cancer. Deep in the woods, he encounters Thomas, a forest ranger who has a run-in with the law, and together they will make a trek to the far reaches of Wilson Sanford National Forest's northern glacial lakes to prove the Curlew exists-and to make a final stand to save it's last breeding ground.
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