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... Lord Byron
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
On Nature by Lucretius
Theory of justice by John Rawls
Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorste ... ... sort of stuff a long time ago. As it is, the few ideas that I have in this area are based on Consciousness Explained and Consilience. The Emperor's New Mind might have influenced me, if I'd understood a blind word of what Roger Penrose was blathering on about. 28.Consilience by Edward O. Wilson 352 pages ***1/2
Really interesting premise, the unity of all knowledge, I wanted to see it work. I'm not sure if it really was successful, but I'd still like to believe in the ability for all things to be connected.
29.1st to Die by James Patterson 424 ... ... book would have made more sense.
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Still working on The Plot Against America and Consilience and The Israel Lobby - should have more done by next week. I think on the science part I was thinking of E.O. Wilson's book, Consilience where he posits that science will eventually answer everything.
One can be dogmatic about uncertainty--David Hume comes to mind.
#20 How do you answer the question, "I love Sue, but Sue does not love me," (which ... ... high school European History class and have always been interested in reading it
121 Epistemology - Truth: A Guide or Consilience My friends in another class in high school had to read Consilience so I'm thinking it might not be that bad
129 Origin and Destiny of Individual Souls - Sp ... Another book that you might enjoy, RawREN, would be Consilience, by Edward O. Wilson. This book would probably be more along Doug's way of thinking. ... History of Time, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and On the Origin of Species. So much for bragging. I have Naturalist and Consilience by Edwar O. Wilson. And how about Betrayal of Science and Reason by Ehrlich and Ehrlich. Then there are The Great Beyond : Higher Dimensions, Parallel Univers ... ... History of Time, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and On the Origin of Species. So much for bragging. I have Naturalist and Consilience by Edwar O. Wilson. And how about Betrayal of Science and Reason by Ehrlich and Ehrlich. Then there are The Great Beyond : Higher Dimensions, Parallel Univers ... the glass bead game, mmm....
It's been over 30 years since I read it - nearly 20 years befor Consilience. To really join in the conversation I will have to re-read them both, but, mkjones, you may have made an interesting connection. ... to drive the most ardent atheist to church, I think! You might find these scientists' tone a little more tolerable:
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
Stephen Jay G ... Are there other books that are sort of like Consilience? I like Max Delbruck's Mind from Matter and Nicholas Maxwell's The Human World in the Physical Universe. Anyone read Seven Mysteries of Life by Guy Murchie? I know there's got to be something out there by Ken Wilber. The ... What are good resources for Consilience type research or discussion? I like www.edge.org, (mostly?) developed by John Brockman, who also writes about many researchers in books like The Third Culture, The New Humanists: Science at the Edge, etc. It has been about 10 years since Consilience was written. Has much progress been made?
Within the physical sciences I believe that the answer is yes. But is regard to unity of the physical and social sciences I believe that the answer is no.
Your thoughts? ... our many problems, or individually, best know how to live. But how is knowledge to be unified? Religious people think that Consilience tries to reduce all knowledge to some form of materialism. Scientific people think that religions try to reduce all knowledge to contingent dogma. And ... ... going to attempt a legitimate separation. E. O. Wilson goes into a description of the consciliatory nature of knowledge in Consilience for any who are interested.
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"We've taught our son about all the religions of the world, from Christianity to Wicca, from Judaism to Buddhism. Because ... ... a bit of a creepy gesture I haven't read it yet, although it looks fairly interesting. Otherwise, I only just bought myself Consilience, which I plan on reading after the book I'm on now. I think my only other two unreads in the science category are Kricher's A Neotropical Companion, which ... I recently "got around" to reading Consilience; it's interesting that Wilson recently inclusively abstracted many of that book's topics in his recent The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth. So, I guess what I'm saying is that you can read Wilson's latest work, which shows how ... Great post mosshead.
For me, Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consilience.
I will read them soon....
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