The Intelligence of the Cosmos
The Intelligence of the Cosmos

Author: Ervin Laszlo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1620557320

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From the cutting edge of science and living spirituality: a guide to understanding our identity and purpose in the world • Outlines the new understanding of matter and mind coming to light at the cutting edge of physics and consciousness research • Explains how we can evolve consciously, become connected with each other, and flourish on this planet • Includes contributions from Maria Sagi, Kingsley L. Dennis, Emanuel Kuntzelman, Dawna Jones, Shamik Desai, Garry Jacobs, and John R. Audette For the outdated mainstream paradigm the world is a giant mechanism functioning in accordance with known and knowable laws and regularities. The new paradigm emerging in science offers a different concept: The world is an interconnected, coherent whole, and it is informed by a cosmic intelligence. This is not a finite, mechanistic-material world. It is a consciousness-infused whole-system world. We are conscious beings who emerge and co-evolve as complex, cosmic-intelligence in-formed vibrations in the Akashic Field of the universe. Ervin Laszlo and his collaborators from the forefront of science, cosmology, and spirituality show how the re-discovery of who we are and why we are here integrates seamlessly with the wisdom traditions as well as with the new emerging worldview in the sciences, revealing a way forward for humanity on this planet. They explain how we have reached a point of critical incoherence and tell us that to save ourselves, our environment, and society, we need a critical mass of people to consciously evolve a new thinking. Offering a guidepost to orient this evolution, Laszlo examines the nature of consciousness in the universe, showing how our bodies and minds act as transmitters of consciousness from the intelligence of the cosmos and how understanding science’s new concept of the world enables us to re-discover our identity and our purpose in our world. With bold vision and forward thinking, Laszlo and his contributors Maria Sagi, Kingsley L. Dennis, Emanuel Kuntzelman, Dawna Jones, Shamik Desai, Garry Jacobs, and John R. Audette outline the new idea of the world and of ourselves in the world. They help us discover how we can overcome these divisive times and blossom into a new era of peace, coherence, connection, and global wellbeing.

Life in the Cosmos
Life in the Cosmos

Author: Manasvi Lingam

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 1089

ISBN-13: 0674987578

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A rigorous and scientific analysis of the myriad possibilities of life beyond our planet. ÒAre we alone in the universe?Ó This tantalizing question has captivated humanity over millennia, but seldom has it been approached rigorously. Today the search for signatures of extraterrestrial life and intelligence has become a rapidly advancing scientific endeavor. Missions to Mars, Europa, and Titan seek evidence of life. Laboratory experiments have made great strides in creating synthetic life, deepening our understanding of conditions that give rise to living entities. And on the horizon are sophisticated telescopes to detect and characterize exoplanets most likely to harbor life. Life in the Cosmos offers a thorough overview of the burgeoning field of astrobiology, including the salient methods and paradigms involved in the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence. Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb tackle three areas of interest in hunting for life Òout thereÓ: first, the pathways by which life originates and evolves; second, planetary and stellar factors that affect the habitability of worlds, with an eye on the biomarkers that may reveal the presence of microbial life; and finally, the detection of technological signals that could be indicative of intelligence. Drawing on empirical data from observations and experiments, as well as the latest theoretical and computational developments, the authors make a compelling scientific case for the search for life beyond what we can currently see. Meticulous and comprehensive, Life in the Cosmos is a master class from top researchers in astrobiology, suggesting that the answer to our age-old question is closer than ever before.

The Intelligent Cosmos
The Intelligent Cosmos

Author: Anthony J. Marolda

Publisher:

Published: 2022-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979309991

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Everyone wonders about intelligent life in the Universe. What is intelligence anyway? How did it develop on Earth? Are animals really intelligent? How do they compare? What will be the impact on us of Artificial Super Intelligence? Are there intelligent Extraterrestrials out there? Given all of this, what is the future of humankind?"The Intelligent Cosmos" gives you answers to these, and many other questions, based on the latest research from scientists around the globe, written for the average, intelligent reader. There are 514 pages with many illustrations and over 350 citations.

The Intelligent Universe
The Intelligent Universe

Author: James Gardner

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2007-01-19

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1601639651

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What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. In The Intelligent Universe, James Gardner envisions a third dramatic alternative—a final state of the cosmos in which a highly evolved form of group intelligence engineers a cosmic renewal, the birth of a new universe.

The Mind's Sky
The Mind's Sky

Author: Timothy Ferris

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2009-12-16

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0307574881

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The bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way delivers fascinating essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, comet strikes as a source of species extinction, near-death experiences, apocalyptic prophecies, information theory, and the origin of laughter. Praise for The Mind’s Sky “It is a joy to read The Mind’s Sky. What a sense of humility in the face of mystery—the spirit of Ulysses, as Tennyson put it, determined ‘to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield’—and sense of poetry too!”—John Archibald Wheeler, physicist, Princeton University “A few chapters into this wonderful book I suddenly realized that I was taking wider views of my own mind’s sky than I have enjoyed in a long time. Ferris illuminates (among other matters) the mysteries of laughter, nirvana, common sense, and Joe Montana. He makes us think big thoughts.”—Jonathan Weiner, author of The Next 100 Years and Planet Earth “One of our best and most imaginative writers, Timothy Ferris has never been afraid to tackle big themes. The Mind’s Sky is a dazzling and provocative synthesis of inner and outer space. This book is sure to be as controversial as it is elegant.”—Dennis Overbye, author of Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos

The Intelligent Cosmos
The Intelligent Cosmos

Author: Anthony J. Marolda

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979309946

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Everyone wonders about intelligent life in the Universe. What is intelligence anyway? How did it develop on Earth? Are animals really intelligent? How do they compare? What will be the impact on us of Artificial Super Intelligence? Are there intelligent Extraterrestrials out there? Given all of this, what is the future of humankind?"The Intelligent Cosmos" gives you answers to these, and many other questions, based on the latest research from scientists around the globe, written for the average, intelligent reader. There are 514 pages with many illustrations and over 350 citations.

Cosmic Intelligence and You
Cosmic Intelligence and You

Author: S Rengarajan

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1946280542

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Everyone is eager to know where one has come from and where one is heading to. Since the universe itself is a creation from the abstract source – God – it becomes difficult to give valid answers by realistic logics. Hence, all attempts to explain this phenomenon till now through inference, comparison, deduction, and belief have ended up inconclusively, leaving bits of confusion and dismay in many minds. In this book, an attempt is made to logically analyze the Vedantic axiom ‘God has desired, let me be many and savor the diversities’. This book begins with the invincible qualities of the Source of creation itself and then proceeds in logical steps as to how It has permeated through Its manifestations in various stages of their progress. Only an awareness that the self-healing phenomenon forms the basic building block in all entities helps the reader to follow the subject matter with ease. As the Source itself is an embodiment of unlimited faculties, one may find equal or perhaps more enthusiasm, while arriving at a relationship with the source & the self through the faculties naturally nurtured by one’s abilities. There are thus unlimited paths that lead one to bliss.

What is Reality?
What is Reality?

Author: Ervin Laszlo

Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1590793994

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Ervin Laszlo's tour de force, What is Reality?, is the product of a half-century of deep contemplation and cutting-edge scholarship. Addressing many of the paradoxes that have confounded modern science over the years, it offers nothing less than a new paradigm of reality, one in which the cosmos is a seamless whole, informed by a single, coherent consciousness manifest in us all. Bringing together science, philosophy, and metaphysics, Laszlo takes aim at accepted wisdom, such as the dichotomies of mind and body, spirit and matter, being and nonbeing, to show how we are all part of an infinite cycle of existence unfolding in spacetime and beyond. Augmented by insightful commentary from a dozen scholars and thinkers, along with a foreword by Deepak Chopra and an introduction by Stanislav Grof, What is Reality? offers a fresh and liberating understanding of the meaning and purpose of existence.

Mind and Cosmos
Mind and Cosmos

Author: Thomas Nagel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-22

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0199919755

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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.