Humanity in a creative universe / Stuart A. Kauffman.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

xvii, 294 pages ; 25 cm

First edition.

Prologue: Reclaiming enchantment -- 1. Hinge of history -- 2. The foundations : the emergence of reductive materialism and the loss of our humanity -- Part I. Beyond the Entailing Laws of Physics and Reductive Materialism. 3. The nonergodic universe above the level of atoms : an "antientropic process" in the universe ; 4. A creative universe : no entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere ; 5. A creative universe : the social world -- Part II. Toward the Subjective Pole. 6. Are we zombies with, at best, witnessing minds? ; 7. A new proposed dualism : res potentia and res extensa, linked by quantum measurement ; 8. Beyond the stalemate : answering Descartes with the poised realm ; 9. Toward a quantum, poised realm, classical theory of mind-body ; 10. Toward an ontological basis for a responsible free will ; 11. The strong free will theorem : toward the subjective pole ; 12. The subjective pole and the quantum enigma ; 13. The creative and unentailed quantum evolution of the universe ; 14. Beyond Pythagoras : must we have foundations? -- Part III. Who Are We Knowing, Doing, Living Humans in a Creative Universe in Late Modernity? 15. Self-organization in the origin of life, agency, and ontogeny ; 16. Knowing and being in the world, aspects of our humanity ; 17. Beyond modernity? : can we partially co-create a woven global civilization that serves our humanity?

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-280) and index.