Being Human
The Search for Order
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- Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 The Current crisis
The environmental crisis
The demographic crisis
The economic crisis
The political crisis
The moral/fideistic/epistemological crisis
2 Our Age of Ignorance
Noetic Science
Physics
Biology
Economics
Technology
Psychology
Politics and Sociology
Religion and Myth
Universals in Religion
Cosmogony
The psychology of the millennium
The problem of human suffering
Value
Some Conclusions
3 Theories of Everything
Introduction
Dei ex machine
The sciences of complexity
Catastrophe theory
Chaos
Games
Something for Nothing?
Information
Computation
Buckserologists (Know-it-alls)
Precedence claims and claim-jumps
Introduction
Physics
Darwinism
Eschatologies
Stake Takeover
Weltanschauungen
Gurdjieff
Marxism
Conclusions
Appendix A: How does Science Progress?
Appendix B: The Reduced History of Physics
Appendix C: Genetic technologies
References
Sociology: General Sociology
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