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Chargement... Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choicepar Andreas Wagner
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a MUST Read book - a necessary corrective to to all of us who have been disciplined to belief that logic is the language of the universe. Of course logic is an absolutely necessary and powerful tool - it's just insufficient. The author elaborate how profoundly biology is filled with examples how every material component is surrounded by a field of affordances that cannot be fully enumerated. Thus biology enables matter to find meaningful uses everywhere. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagner's ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge.Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other, and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radical-and optimistic-outlook for humans and the world we help create. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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