Luisi Mind and Life

Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-52970-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Series in Science and Religion

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Luisi, Pier

Weitere Mitwirkende

Houshmand, Zara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How Real Are the Elementary Particles?
2. The Emergence of Complexity; and an Interview with Matthieu Ricard
3. Toward the Complexity of Life
4. How Life Unfolds; and an Interview with Richard Gere
5. The Magic of the Human Genome and Its Ethical Problems; and an Interview with His Holiness the Karmapa
6. From Consciousness to Ethics
7. Last Words
About the Mind and Life Institute
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pier Luigi Luisi is professor of biology at the University of Roma 3 and the author of The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology. His major research has been in the fields of self-organization of chemical systems and the emergence of novel functional properties as a result of increased complexity.