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Inclusional Nature: Bringing Life and Love to Science

A.D.M. Rayner-2006-01-01
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This book offers a radical transformation in our understanding of evolutionary processes, giving hope of liberation from currently alienating ideas about human and non-human nature. It describes the author’s experiences of pain and joy, strengths and frailties, alongside his quest to make sense of the world in a way that brings together scientific, artistic and spiritual views so that they complement rather than oppose one another. It treats individual consciousness as a vital inclusion of the wider collective realm from which we all emerge and into which we all subside like ripples at the interface of water and air. It may even help us to find more creative, peaceful and environmentally sustainable ways of living together, through a deeper understanding of our natural neighbourhood. At the heart of the book is a distinctive way of understanding the dynamic geometry of human and non-human nature, based on modern scientific evidence of the inextricability of space from energy, time and

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This book offers a radical transformation in our understanding of evolutionary processes, giving hope of liberation from currently alienating ideas about human and non-human nature. It describes the author’s experiences of pain and joy, strengths and frailties, alongside his quest to make sense of the world in a way that brings together scientific, artistic and spiritual views so that they complement rather than oppose one another. It treats individual consciousness as a vital inclusion of the wider collective realm from which we all emerge and into which we all subside like ripples at the interface of water and air. It may even help us to find more creative, peaceful and environmentally sustainable ways of living together, through a deeper understanding of our natural neighbourhood. At the heart of the book is a distinctive way of understanding the dynamic geometry of human and non-human nature, based on modern scientific evidence of the inextricability of space from energy, time and

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RealmConsciousnessEpistemologyNatural (archaeology)Environmental ethicsSociologyAestheticsPolitical science

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