Pier Luisi

Mind and Life

Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

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Produktbeschreibung

For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophersmembers of the Mind and Life Institutehave met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit. At one of these meetings, the themes discussed were both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and the ethics we bring to biotechnology? And how does an ancient spiritual tradition throw new light on these questions?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 146mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9780231145510
• ISBN-10: 0231145519
• Artikelnr.: 30678843

Autorenporträt

Pier Luigi Luisi; with Zara Houshmand

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How Real Are the Elementary Particles?
2. The Emergence of Complexity; and an Interview with Matthieu Ricard
3. Toward the Complexity of Life
4. How Life Unfolds; and an Interview with Richard Gere
5. The Magic of the Human Genome and Its Ethical Problems; and an Interview
with His Holiness the Karmapa
6. From Consciousness to Ethics
7. Last Words
About the Mind and Life Institute
Notes
Index