After the Clockwork Universe,9780863152900

After the Clockwork Universe

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ISBN13: 9780863152900
ISBN10: 0863152902
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher(s): Floris Books
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Table of Contents

Foreword 11(4)
Preface 15(3)
Web world 18(14)
I A BIT OF HISTORY
Big Change, Past and Present
32(54)
Once upon a Time
34(7)
`The Tapestry of God's Design
41(18)
The Turning Point
59(12)
The Dark Side of the Enlightenment Dream
71(10)
Once upon a Time Revisited
81(5)
II WEB WORLD
Crumbling and Emerging
86(46)
How Much could change?
88(8)
Chaos!
96(12)
Unveiling the Invisible Hand
108(12)
Complexity!
120(4)
Intricacy and the Unexplored Realm:
124(5)
Crumbling, but Still Emerging
129(3)
Energy and Basic Principles of Change
132(19)
What happens when there's Heat?
133(4)
Energy-driven Organization in the Real World
137(3)
Principles of Organization and Change
140(9)
Rules for Rising and Falling
149(2)
The Creative Cosmos
151(52)
Another Dark Side of Science
153(2)
Web Dynamics and the Shape of Life
155(8)
The Dynamics of Life and the Greater Whole
163(10)
Gaia and the New Biology
173(8)
Another Set of Copernicans
181(15)
The Web of Life and Energy
196(4)
What Difference does Web Thinking make?
200(3)
The Mind of God, Many and One
203(39)
The Enigma of Mind
204(10)
The Learning Universe
214(2)
The Evolution of Humanity's Society of Mind
216(9)
The Evolution of Human Consciousness
225(14)
A New Look at the Learning Universe
239(3)
III THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT
The Nature of Humanity and the World
242(30)
Deep Ecology
243(5)
Rethinking Human Nature
248(9)
Intricacy and our Two Deep Cultures
257(9)
The Integral Challenge
266(4)
Life in the Learning Universe
270(2)
The Cycles of Civilization
272(51)
Civilization's Big Bang
273(15)
The Return of the Dominator Ethos
288(7)
The Causes of Social Distress
295(5)
Domination and the Human Ecology
300(13)
The Corruption of Head, Heart and Soul
313(6)
Cycles, ever Cycles
319(4)
The Economic Debate
323(49)
Economics and the Madness of Method
326(12)
Web or Machine?
338(17)
Why we have a Crisis in Ideology
355(6)
High-value and a Glimmer of Hope
361(11)
IV INTEGRAL SOCIETY
Seeds of a New Way
372(42)
The Challenge
373(5)
How Human Eco-systems Self-organize
378(11)
Searching for Synergy - and Peace
389(2)
Healing Human Ecologies
391(21)
Networked mutualism
412(2)
The Awakening
414(43)
Past, Present and Future Societies
415(3)
Head, Heart and Soul
418(8)
A Union of Dreams
426(1)
On the Edge
427(8)
Appendices
A: Copernicus Again!
435(9)
B: Contrasts in Scientific and Cultural Visions
444(8)
C: Oneness and the Perennial Philosophy
452(5)
Endnotes 457(6)
Bibliography 463(8)
Index 471

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