The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Dutton (2016)
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I discuss "Poetic Naturalism" -- there is only one world, the natural world, but there are many ways of talking about it -- both as a general concept, and how it accounts for our actual world. I talk about emergence, fundamental physics, entropy and complexity, the origins of life and consciousness, and moral constructivism.

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Sean M. Carroll
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