Overview
- A convincingly argued "reality check" for both scientists and general readers
- Demonstrates that, without mind, the Universe is a "blank slate"
- Based on newest results from the neurosciences and studies of perception
- Stimulating ideas that could foreshadow the future direction of physics
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The book’s argument begins with the British empiricists who raised our awareness of the fact that we have no direct contact with physical reality, but it is the mind that constructs the form and features of objects. It is shown that modern cognitive science brings this insight a step further by suggesting that shape and structure are not internal to objects, but arise in the observer. The author goes yet further by arguing that the meaningful connectedness between things — the hierarchical organization of all we perceive — is the result of the Gestalt nature of perception and thought, and exists only as a property of mind. These insights give the first glimmerings of a new way of seeing the cosmos: not as a mineral wasteland but a place inhabited by creatures.
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Book Title: Mind and the Cosmic Order
Book Subtitle: How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics
Authors: Charles Pinter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50083-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50082-5Published: 05 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50083-2Published: 04 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 176
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quantum Physics, Neurobiology, Philosophy of Mind, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics