| Description |
1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Philosophical Roots: Heisenberg and the Sixties -- Essay 1. Werner Heisenberg: Explorer of the Limits of Human Imagination -- Essay 2. Heisenberg and Tagore -- Essay 3. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Reflections on the Spirit and Legacy of the Sixties -- Chapter 2. Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism: First Discoveries of the Parallels -- Essay 4. The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics -- Essay 5. Bootstrap and BuddhismEssay 6. Particle Physics and Eastern Philosophy -- Essay 7. In Memoriam Geoffrey Chew, 1924-2019 -- Chapter 3. Implications of the "New Physics" -- Essay 8. The New Physics as a Model for a New Medicine, Psychology, and Economics? -- Essay 9. The Unification of Physics -- Chapter 4. The New Vision of Reality: An Early Synthesis -- Essay 10. Homage to Gregory Bateson -- Essay 11. The Turning Point: A New Vision of Reality -- Essay 12. The Role of Physics in the Current Change of Paradigms -- Chapter 5. Crisis of Perception -- Essay 13. Why Are the Real Issues of Our Time Excluded from the Political Dialogue? -- Essay 14. The Challenge of the NinetiesChapter 6. Ecological Literacy -- Essay 15. The Principles of Ecology -- Essay 16. Ecology and Community -- Essay 17. Turn, Turn, Turn: Understanding Nature's Cycles -- Chapter 7. Complexity and Life -- Essay 18. Russian Pioneers of Systems Thinking -- Essay 19. "What Is Life?" Revisited -- Essay 20. Complexity and Life -- Essay 21. Arcadia and the Science of Complexity -- Chapter 8. The Full Synthesis -- Essay 22. The Nature of Life: Integrating Biological, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions -- Essay 23. Food, Water, and Life -- Essay 24. The Flow of Life in the Art of Andy Goldsworthy -- Chapter 9. Systemic Problems -- Systemic Solutions -- Essay 25. The Challenge of the 21st Century -- Essay 26. Systems Thinking and the State of the World -- Essay 27. The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systemic Analysis -- Chapter 10. Ecology and Ethics -- Essay 28. Deep Ecology: A New Paradigm -- Essay 29. Earth Ethics -- Chapter 11. Science and Spirituality Revisited -- Essay 30. Science, Spirituality, and Religion |
| Summary |
Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Physics.
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physics.
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Physics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826362810 |
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0826362818 |
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