| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 186 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Abstract -- Cosmic Life -- Life as Living Organic Events that Express Novelty -- The Presence of the Past, Novelty Potentiality, and the Cosmos as Life Itself -- The Self-Enrichment of Cosmic Life in Its Parts as Our Personal Guidance -- Admitting Our Inalienable Links with the Cosmos -- Introduction -- Interstellar Dust -- Implications of Accepting the Concept of Cosmic Life -- Exoplanets and the Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life -- Panspermia -- The Mind-Blowing Improbability of Life -- Direct Spectroscopic Proof |
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Geological Evidence Supporting Panspermia -- Distribution of Habitable Exoplanets and Exchanges of Living Entities -- Meteorites, Micrometeorites and Cometary Bacteria -- The Disputed Polonnaruwa Meteorite: Recent Relevant Studies -- Stratospheric Sampling -- Diseases from Space and Pandemics -- Conclusion -- References -- The Cosmic Life Instinct Points the Way to a Healthy Ecological Civilization -- Introduction and Brief Overview -- The Aim of Universal Human Cognition is to Understand Nature as a Whole on the Basis of Explanatory Principles |
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The Role of the Soul, the Intellect, and the Life Instinct in Our Decisions -- The Central Role of the Most General Laws of Nature in Understanding Reality -- The Explanatory Chain of Nature is Based on Fundamental Principles -- In Ancient Nature Religion, the Natural Order is Based on the Life Principle -- The Main Path of Science and Philosophy Has Been Directed, for Millennia, to Discover the Fundamental Principles of the Universe -- The Highest Goal of Science and Philosophy is to Know the Whole of Nature and to Explain it by Fundamental Principles -- Definition of Health |
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Characteristics of a Healthy World View -- The Explanatory System of the Natural Sciences is Based on Fundamental Principles -- The Principle of Least Action is the Fundamental Principle of Physics -- The Present State of the Explanatory System of Physics -- The Fundamental Principle of Biology, the Principle of Life -- Explaining the Independent Decision-Making of Living Organisms -- Physics, Biology, and Logic Are All Based on Fundamental Principles -- The Thrice Threefold, Hierarchical Structure of the Universe |
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The Seven Cosmic Communities of Life-Communities Within Communities up to the Living Universe -- There is Only One Entity that Can Exist by Its Own Power: Cosmic Life -- On the Relationship Between the Principle of Least Action and the Principle of Greatest Action -- The Laws of Nature Exist in Reality and Have a Causal Role -- We All Need to Know What Reality is, Since Our Future Fundamentally Depends on Our Understanding of Reality -- The Two Most Effective Tools of General Philosophy: Outlook of Life and Worldview |
| Summary |
Just as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions to this book point toward a future philosophy of cosmic life. In this sense, this edited volume represents a multidisciplinary and transcultural polylogue of distinguished authors from three continents, which aims to establish highly innovative perspectives and open new frontiers of developing philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, for an integral ecology, and for a cooperative planetary civilization of humanity. John B. Cobb, Jr. uses a process-philosophical foundation to describe life as living events expressing novelty and the cosmos as a process of self-enriching and self-evolving Life Itself. Chandra Wickramasinghe unfolds his scientific and philosophical perspective on cosmic life in twelve successive steps, offering a wide range of arguments and insights that support an up-to-date theory of panspermia. Attila Grandpierre presents the "Cosmic Life Principle" and the comprehensive science based upon it that is inextricably linked to the healthy and cooperative civilization, to the biological laws of nature, to the laws of logic, to the uplifting of the well-being of people and ecological communities. Chunyou Yan introduces the approach of his holographic philosophy, according to which the universe must be understood as a vast living entity, every aspect of which represents life. Bei Peng shows that the proportions of energy meridians in traditional Chinese medicine correspond to musical intervals, and on this basis she demonstrates the analogy of the human body to macrocosmic phenomena. David Bartosch offers an examination of three important systematic foundations for a poly-contextural, transcultural philosophy of cosmic life with roots in Greek, Chinese, South and West Asian, and European traditions of thought. |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Cosmology -- Philosophy
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Consciousness.
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Life.
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Consciousness
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Cosmology -- Philosophy
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Life
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bartosch, David
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Grandpierre, Attila, 1951-
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Peng, Bei
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| ISBN |
9789819921317 |
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9819921317 |
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