The singularity of nature : a convergence of biology, chemistry and physics /: a convergence of biology, chemistry and physics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John S. Torday, William B. Miller, Jr. ; contributions by Robert Hanna.
• Authors: Torday, John S; Jr, Miller, William B, 1951-; Hanna, Robert
• Contents: The Singularity of Nature; Bohm Meets Bacon; The Cell, Evolution, and Occam's Razor; CP Snow's 'Two Cultures' Condition is Resolved by the Singularity; The Heart is not just a Pump: The Brain is not your only 'Mind'; Why You Must Transcend Space-Time in Order to Understand Consciousness; The Evolutionary Significance of Homeostasis; Networking from the Cell to Quantum Mechanics as Consciousness; On Cellular Cooperativity as the Basis for Moral Behavior; Aging, Senescence and Death as a Systematic Breakdown in Cell-Cell Communication; A Holistic Perspective on Consciousness; Cell Division Seen as the Symmetry Breaking of the Singularity/Big Bang; Minding the Gap, or The Unicell Fills the Gap Between Proximate and Ultimate Causation; The Big Bang: Vectoral Origin of The Periodic Table and Evolution; The Physiological and Evolutionary Significance of Deuterostomy; We are all denizens of Gaia; Cell-Cell Signaling, the Energy Flow from the Big Bang to Civilization; The physics of biology conforms to the Singularity; Foundational Physicochemical Pinciples Drive Human Economics; Singularity, Life, and Mind: New Wave Organicism; Conclusion: The Singularity Unites the Cosmos
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 576.83; Life -- Origin; Molecular biology; Biophysics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781839162244; 9781839162251
• Related ISBNs: 9781788017978
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