The Quantum Self

Fülszöveg

It you are looldiig for a travel guide to understanding society as it has been or could be in the next century and beyond, Zohar's contribution will be worth the effort." -Wakren Froelich, San Diego Union THE DANAH ZQHAR In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modern physics can illuminate our understanding of eveiyday life-our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings of the subatomic realm to create a new model of humán consciousness, the author addresses enduring philosophical questions. Does the new physics provide a basis by which our consciousness might continue beyond death? How does the material world (for instance, ugly inner cities) impinge upon our sense of self? Is there a subatomic wellspring from which our creativity, our empathy with others, and our feelings of unity with the inanimate world originate? Most important, Zohar shows how the vitality of the new physics... Tovább

Fülszöveg

It you are looldiig for a travel guide to understanding society as it has been or could be in the next century and beyond, Zohar's contribution will be worth the effort." -Wakren Froelich, San Diego Union THE DANAH ZQHAR In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modern physics can illuminate our understanding of eveiyday life-our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings of the subatomic realm to create a new model of humán consciousness, the author addresses enduring philosophical questions. Does the new physics provide a basis by which our consciousness might continue beyond death? How does the material world (for instance, ugly inner cities) impinge upon our sense of self? Is there a subatomic wellspring from which our creativity, our empathy with others, and our feelings of unity with the inanimate world originate? Most important, Zohar shows how the vitality of the new physics combats the alienation and fragmentation of twentieth-century life, and replaces it with a model of reality in which the universe itself rnay possess a type of consciousness, of which humán consciousness is one expression. "Ms. Zohar writes about these abstractions with considerable clarity, even growing lyrical at times. She has obviously done her homework, having read or interviewed the leading contemporary thinkers on the subject of mind and artificial intelligence." -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "A very thoughtful book, rooted in science but speculative in disposition, which raises many questions and offers an intriguing array of answers. She makes no outrageous claims and doesn't spin off into the twilight zone." -Lee Dembart, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A stimulating work, thoughtfully conceived and unusually thorough" -Kirkus Reviews Danah Zohar received her B.S. in physics and philosophy from MIT and completed three years of postgraduate study in philosophy and religion at Harvard University, where she was a student of Erik Erikson. She and her husband, Dr. I. N. Marshall, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with whom she collaborated on this book, live in Oxford, England. Vissza