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Long description: Warum sind die Naturgesetze so, wie sie sind? Der Autor entwickelt eine Strategie, nach welcher eine Theorie gefunden werden kann, welche Relativitäts- und Quantentheorie, die Naturkonstanten, die vier Wechselwirkungen und alle Elementarteilchen einheitlich beschreibt. Die Naturgesetze sind so, wie sie sein müssen, damit Wahrnehmung möglich ist. Unendlichkeit, eine Zeit, in der nichts passiert und ein Raum ohne Objekte sind nicht per se empirisch wahrnehmbar, weshalb auf diese metaphysischen Begriffe verzichtet wird. Das Axiom A=A widerspricht sich selbst, weshalb es durch ein neues «Chiralitätsaxiom» ersetzt wird. Erst dieses Axiom ermöglicht es, Wahrnehmungen in unserem Bewusstsein zu ordnen. Der Begriff des Schwarzen Loches wird erweitert. Raum, Zeit, Substanz und Wechselwirkung sind nur noch verschiedene Aspekte der mathematisch neu definierten Wesenheit Ereignis. Ereignisse sind empirisch zählbar. Long description: Der Autor entwickelt eine Strategie, mit welcher dank sechs Paradigmenwechseln eine Theorie gefunden werden kann, welche die Relativitäts- und Quantentheorie, die Naturkonstanten, die vier Wechselwirkungen und alle Elementarteilchen einheitlich beschreibt. Die Naturgesetze sind so, wie sie sein müssen, damit Wahrnehmung möglich ist. Biographical note: Hans Wehrli, geboren 1940, studierte Naturwissenschaften an der Universität Zürich und Biochemie an der Kansas State University, wo er seine Promotion vollendete. In seiner Forschung befasst er sich mit der Frage nach den Naturgesetzen. Gleichzeitig ist er unabhängiger Unternehmer und Stadtrat von Zürich.
category theory --- Naturgesetze --- wbg Publishing Services --- action at a distance --- black hole --- Chiralität --- chirality --- laws of physics --- physikalische Gesetze --- Schwarzes Loch --- Theorie von Allem --- theory of everything --- Stereochemistry --- Symmetry (Physics) --- Enantiomers --- Chirality
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"Breakthrough Prize recipient Joseph Polchinksi (now deceased) reveals details of his upbringing, his collaborations with major figures in physics, and his significant contributions to string theory and cosmology"--
Autobiography: science, technology & medicine --- Cryogenics --- History of science --- multiverse --- theory of everything --- D-branes --- string theory --- black holes --- theoretical physics --- Stephen Hawking --- holographic universe --- universe --- string theorist --- autobiography --- scientist --- Joseph Polchinski --- life of a theoretical physicist --- Physicists --- Physics --- Cosmology. --- Philosophy. --- Polchinski, Joseph Gerard. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology --- SCIENCE / Physics / General --- SCIENCE / History --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics
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"Taking the long view of the history of philosophy, The Failures of Philosophy shows how philosophy has in fact collapsed several times, been completely abandoned, sometimes for centuries, and been replaced by something quite different from philosophy. The book focuses on what are historically the most significant failures of philosophy: attempts to provide an account of 'the good life' and how to live; to establish philosophy as a discipline that can stand in judgement over and assess other forms of thought; attempts to establish philosophy as a theory of everything; and attempts to construe it as a discipline that parallels or rationalizes the empirical and mathematical sciences, building up technical credentials that mimic those of science. The central atrgument of the book is that examination of these failures tells us much more about the nature of philosophical enquiry, and about the ultimate point of the exercise, than its successes possibly could. Examination of its failures shows us the significant differences in the way in which philosophers have conceived of the point at different times, and why they have been obliged to shift focus. It tells us why philosophy has been thought to bring distinctive skills to questions, and whether these are actually fruitful skills. And, above all, it allows us to open up the question whether philosophy has anything to offer over and above other ways of engaging cognate questions"--
Philosophy --- History. --- Aristotelianism. --- Aristotle. --- Augustine. --- Denis Diderot. --- Etienne Condillac. --- French medical philosophers. --- German popular philosophers. --- Hume. --- Idealists. --- Immanuel Kant. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Nicolas Malebranche. --- Plato. --- Platonism. --- Renaissance naturalism. --- Rene Descartes. --- St. Thomas Aquinas. --- abstract enquiry. --- ancient philosophy. --- cognate questions. --- cosmopolitan ethics. --- empirical science. --- epistemology. --- ethics. --- good life. --- history of metaphysics. --- holism. --- intellectual morality. --- logic. --- logical positivism. --- mathematical sciences. --- metaphysics of morals. --- metaphysics. --- metatheory of science. --- moral complexity. --- moral diversity. --- natural philosophy. --- nature of philosophy. --- neo-Kantianism. --- new science. --- optics. --- phenomenology. --- philosophical enquiry. --- philosophy of medicine. --- philosophy of science. --- philosophy. --- presocratic. --- pyrrhonism. --- sense perception. --- sensibility. --- theory of everything. --- vision.
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In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and harness its potential. Crackling with insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas, from climate change to the global financial meltdown, this book challenges our most sacredly held beliefs about science, technology, and progress. At the same time, it shows how the secret to better science can be found where we least expect it--in the uncertain, the ambiguous, and the inevitably unpredictable. William Byers explains why the subjective element in scientific inquiry is in fact what makes it so dynamic, and deftly balances the need for certainty and rigor in science with the equally important need for creativity, freedom, and downright wonder. Drawing on an array of fascinating examples--from Wall Street's overreliance on algorithms to provide certainty in uncertain markets, to undecidable problems in mathematics and computer science, to Georg Cantor's paradoxical but true assertion about infinity--Byers demonstrates how we can and must learn from the existence of blind spots in our scientific and mathematical understanding. The Blind Spot offers an entirely new way of thinking about science, one that highlights its strengths and limitations, its unrealized promise, and, above all, its unavoidable ambiguity. It also points to a more sophisticated approach to the most intractable problems of our time.
Uncertainty (Information theory) --- Science --- Measure of uncertainty (Information theory) --- Shannon's measure of uncertainty --- System uncertainty --- Information measurement --- Probabilities --- Questions and answers --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects. --- Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences). --- Algorithm. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Approximation. --- Axiom. --- Axiomatic system. --- Basic research. --- Big O notation. --- Calculation. --- Certainty. --- Chaos theory. --- Circumference. --- Computation. --- Concept. --- Conjecture. --- Consciousness. --- Consistency. --- Contingency (philosophy). --- Continuous function. --- Continuum hypothesis. --- Contradiction. --- Counting. --- David Bohm. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Emergence. --- Euclidean geometry. --- Explanation. --- Feeling. --- Fermat's Last Theorem. --- Geometry. --- Gestalt psychology. --- Gregory Chaitin. --- Gödel's incompleteness theorems. --- Human behavior. --- Human intelligence. --- Hypothesis. --- Ideology. --- Inference. --- Integer. --- Irrational number. --- Learning. --- Logic. --- Logical reasoning. --- Mathematician. --- Mathematics. --- Measurement. --- Methodology. --- Modernity. --- Molecule. --- Natural number. --- Nature. --- Paradigm shift. --- Paradox. --- Participant. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of mathematics. --- Philosophy of science. --- Philosophy. --- Platonism. --- Prediction. --- Principle. --- Probability. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Qualitative property. --- Quantification (science). --- Quantity. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Randomness. --- Rational number. --- Rationality. --- Real number. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Reductionism. --- Relationship between religion and science. --- Result. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific progress. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Self-reference. --- Set theory. --- Special case. --- Subatomic particle. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Technology. --- The Philosopher. --- Theorem. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of everything. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Uncertainty. --- Universality (philosophy). --- Writing. --- Sociology of knowledge
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Modern information communication technology eradicates barriers of geographic distances, making the world globally interdependent, but this spatial globalization has not eliminated cultural fragmentation. The Two Cultures of C.P. Snow (that of science–technology and that of humanities) are drifting apart even faster than before, and they themselves crumble into increasingly specialized domains. Disintegrated knowledge has become subservient to the competition in technological and economic race leading in the direction chosen not by the reason, intellect, and shared value-based judgement, but rather by the whims of autocratic leaders or fashion controlled by marketers for the purposes of political or economic dominance. If we want to restore the authority of our best available knowledge and democratic values in guiding humanity, first we have to reintegrate scattered domains of human knowledge and values and offer an evolving and diverse vision of common reality unified by sound methodology. This collection of articles responds to the call from the journal Philosophies to build a new, networked world of knowledge with domain specialists from different disciplines interacting and connecting with other knowledge-and-values-producing and knowledge-and-values-consuming communities in an inclusive, extended, contemporary natural–philosophic manner. In this process of synthesis, scientific and philosophical investigations enrich each other—with sciences informing philosophies about the best current knowledge of the world, both natural and human-made—while philosophies scrutinize the ontological, epistemological, and methodological foundations of sciences, providing scientists with questions and conceptual analyses. This is all directed at extending and deepening our existing comprehension of the world, including ourselves, both as humans and as societies, and humankind.
pessimistic induction --- n/a --- qualitative ontology --- dissipative structures --- physicalism --- agent-based reasoning --- thermodynamics --- the logic of nature --- reverse mathematics --- theoretical unity --- state-space approach --- common good --- naturalization of logic --- monad --- metaphysics --- reflexive psychology --- knowledge --- neurodynamics --- consciousness --- third-way reasoning --- induction and discovery of laws --- mind-matter relations --- exoplanet --- Second Law of thermodynamics --- unitarity --- philosophical foundations --- in the name of nature --- big crunch --- epistemology --- eco-cognitive model --- active imagination --- aesthetics in science --- science --- second-person description --- subsumptive hierarchy --- 1st-person and 3rd-person perspectives --- discursive space --- space flight --- complexity --- cybernetics --- cosmology --- matter --- realism --- eco-cognitive openness --- hylomorphism --- measurement --- fallacies --- induction --- vacuum --- physics --- mental representation --- embodiment --- problem of induction --- contradiction --- internalism --- Jungian psychology --- synthesis --- exceptional experiences --- mind --- relational biology --- symmetry breaking --- emergence --- phenomenological psychology --- Aristotle’s four causes --- humanistic management --- real computing --- A.N. Whitehead --- final cause --- naturalism --- induction and concept formation --- temporality --- dispositions --- dark energy --- heterogeneity --- Naturphilosophie --- computation --- causality --- memory evolutive system --- natural philosophy --- quantum computing --- philosophy of information --- self --- information --- analytical psychology --- logic --- indeterminacy --- scientific method --- dialectics --- computability --- language --- ethics --- perception --- philosophy of nature --- agonism --- errors of reasoning --- everyday lifeworld --- emptiness --- awareness --- unity of knowledge --- digitization --- fitness --- depth psychology --- info-computational model --- creativity --- ontology --- philosophy as a way of life --- development --- void --- big freeze --- signal transduction --- abduction --- retrocausality --- dual-aspect monism --- quantum information --- theoretical biology --- acategoriality --- epistemic norms --- evolutionary psychology --- apophasis --- differentiation --- memory --- centripetality --- mathematics --- Leibniz --- Ivor Leclerc --- spatial representation --- subjective experience --- intentionality --- evidence and justification --- internal quantum state --- scientific progress --- holographic encoding --- information-theory --- qualia --- anticipation --- naturalization --- F.W.J. Schelling --- L. Smolin --- R.M. Unger --- Aristotle --- dual aspects --- process --- theory of everything --- philosophy of science --- cognition --- compositional hierarchy --- autocatalysis --- discourse --- emergentist reductionism --- form --- regulation --- contingency --- endogenous selection --- category theory --- Science --- Philosophy of nature. --- Philosophy. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy --- Aristotle's four causes
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