Redefining Reality : the Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 501 Gi Oversize	4-week checkout	Due 05-06-2024

"Course Number 4140."
Metaphysics and the nature of science -- Defining reality -- Mathematics in crisis -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Big bang cosmology -- The reality of atoms -- Quantum mechanics -- Quantum field theory -- Chaos theory -- Dark matter and dark energy -- Grand unified theories. -- Quantum consciousness -- Defining reality in the life sciences -- Genes and identity -- The birth of psychology -- Jung and the behaviorists -- The rediscovery of the mind -- The caring brain -- Brain and self -- Evolutionary psychology -- The birth of sociology -- Competition and cooperation -- Race and reality -- Social progress -- The reality of money -- The origin of life -- Exoplanets and extraterrestrial life -- Technology and death -- Cloning and identity -- Genetic engineering -- Medically enhanced humans -- Transhumans: making living gods -- Artificial intelligence -- The internet and virtual reality -- Data analytics.
Lecturer, Professor Steven Gimbel, Gettysbury College.
"Explore the philosophical implications of what modern science has discovered about our universe-- from the big bang, to the future of humanity"--Original container insert.

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