Where God comes from : reflections on science, systems, and the sublime / Ira Livingston.
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- 9781780994000
- 1780994001
- 111.6 23
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Bok | Almedalsbiblioteket | Vuxen | D (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 80058677644 |
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Introduction: the vision of Ezekiel and the films of Stanley Kubrick -- 1. Miracles and signs (Recognition to infinity ; The gravity suspension miracle ; The perfect-fitting clothes miracle ; The fried noodles miracle ; The miracle of the materialized key ; The mockingbird sign ; The jellyfish sign ; Road trip ¡: the story of Virgil ; Where God comes from ; The pedestrian sublime ; A web of meandering connections ; [John] Keats and [Stuart] Kauffman) -- 2. Beginnings (Are we being hustled by God? ; Dumb luck versus intelligent design ; Claymation) -- 3. Getting stuck and unstuck (The lamb soup of Xinjiang ; Renunciation ; Nonlinear time is rife with messiahs ; Depressive realism ; Theory of mind ; Entification ; Famous poems made up of one enormous word) -- 4. Beginning again (Chaos and complexity theory ; Finding your theme music ; Poetics and autopoietics) -- 5. Ending and returning (Road trip with(out) Professor Lee ; Waking up in Beijing ; Still knitting ; Road trip ʾ: an answer for Thad)
Explores how the sublime and miraculous can be found in a whole range of proceses - from chemistry and biology to language and literature and social interactions - and how they loop back on themselves to form complex systems, stitching themselves and their environments together. [It] traces an arc that passes through a series of essay forms: a prose poem in Twitter-length units, a philosophical dialogue, traditional essays, and finally a story. Each is a metacognitive investigation of mystical experience as what happens when consciousness discovers its family resemblances in other processes."--Back cover
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