Sean O Nuallain is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the Managing Director of Nous Research. He has written and edited five books in the area of cognitive science. He also works professionally as a folk and jazz guitarist
Prologue
p. 1
Preface to the second edition
p. 5
Introduction
p. 17
The Current crisis
p. 23
The environmental crisis
p. 23
The demographic crisis
p. 39
The economic crisis
p. 42
The political crisis
p. 46
The moral/fideistic/epistemological crisis
p. 52
Our Age of Ignorance
p. 61
Noetic Science
p. 61
Physics
p. 73
Biology
p. 83
Economics
p. 93
Technology
p. 102
Psychology
p. 105
Politics and Sociology
p. 111
Religion and Myth
p. 113
Universals in religion
p. 123
Cosmogony
p. 130
The psychology of the millennium
p. 132
The problem of human suffering
p. 138
Value
p. 143
Some conclusions
p. 157
Theories of Everything
p. 159
Introduction
p. 159
Dei ex machina
p. 160
The sciences of complexity
p. 160
Catastrophe Theory
p. 163
Chaos
p. 165
Games
p. 167
Something for Nothing?
p. 168
Information
p. 170
Computation
p. 174
Buckserologists (Know-it-alls)
p. 176
Precedence claims and claim-jumps
p. 181
Introduction
p. 181
Physics
p. 183
Darwinism
p. 184
Eschatologies
p. 189
Stake Takeover
p. 193
Weltanschauungen
p. 214
Gurdjieff
p. 218
Marxism
p. 219
Conclusions
p. 221
How does Science Progress?
p. 227
The Reduced History of Physics
p. 229
Genetic technologies
p. 235
References
p. 239
Index
p. 247
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