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Changing the Paradigm of Life: New Answers to the Old Questions
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781068893223
Publisher: Nav
Published: Dec 1 2024
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.24 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.19
Language: English
What is Life - really?
This book dares to reframe that timeless question by exploring the very foundations of Reality itself. Through a bold philosophical lens, the author examines every phenomenon of existence from two opposing but complementary views: metaphysical Realism and Antirealism. Reality, he argues, is dual in nature-both objective and subjective- and any attempt to understand it using only one side leads to an incomplete, distorted picture.
From this foundation, the book unfolds into a thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be alive. It proposes that:
- Every living entity must possess a sense of Me and recognize the Not-Me
- Life evolves through the unresolved dialectical contradiction between subjectivity and objectivity
- The nature of Life is hierarchical; it consists of levels, with each higher level of the hierarchy standing on the shoulders of the lower one
- Cognition is constrained by a being's hierarchical level in Life's structure
- Death affects only the outermost layer of Life's hierarchy, while inner levels may endure
- ...and many other fascinating insights
Ultimately, the book arrives at a profound and provocative conclusion:
There is no such thing as living or non-living Matter - only Agentic Entities evolving in an endless interaction hierarchy. This groundbreaking insight forms the core of a new worldview, which the author calls the Paradigm of the Great Life.
The final chapters examine how this new paradigm might reframe some of modern science's biggest questions - from quantum mechanics to the mysteries of astrophysics.
If you've ever questioned the boundaries between consciousness, reality, and the universe, this book offers a bold new way of seeing everything.
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