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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The laws of physics give us a firm basis to explain our world and dismiss pseudoscience.
Chapter 3: Causality is not a basic requirement for understanding how the universe functions.
Chapter 4: Fundamental and emergent theories offer different viewpoints for different situations.
Chapter 5: Time progresses from past to future because of entropy.
Chapter 6: Complex structures emerge because entropy rises.
Chapter 7: Entropy underlies the origin of life – and evolution.
Chapter 8: The mind need not be an immaterial essence.
Description
The Big Picture (2016) is an ambitious look at the world as we know it and how scientific thinking can be used to make sense of most of it. An insightful examination of the origins of life, consciousness and the universe itself, this book gives readers a deductive way of considering the most challenging questions that philosophy, physics and biology have to offer.
Who Should Listen
- Philosophical buffs
- Students and fans of physics
- Anyone interested in biology and evolutionary theory