Table of Contents

Part I: Beyond The Entailing Laws Of Physics and Reductive Materialism
A Creative Universe: No Entailing Laws, but Enablement in the Evolution of the Biosphere
A Creative Universe: The Social World

Part II: Towards the Subjective Pole
Are We Zombies With At Best Witnessing Minds?
A New Proposed Dualism: Res potentia and Res extensa, Linked by Quantum Measurement
Beyond the Stalemate: Answering Descartes With The Poised Realm
Towards a Quantum, Poised Realm, Classical Theory of Mind Body
Toward an Ontological Basis for a Responsible Free Will
The Strong Free Will Theorem, Toward The Subjective Pole
The Subjective Pole and The Quantum Enigma
The Creative and Unentailed Quantum Evolution of The Universe
Beyond Pythagoras: Must We Have Foundations?

Part III: Who Are We Knowing, Doing, Living Humans In A Creative Universe?
Self Organization In The Origin of Life, Agency, and Ontogeny
Knowing and Being in the World, Aspects of our Humanity
Beyond Modernity? Can We Partially Co-Create A Civilization That Serves Our Humanity?

About the Author

Stuart A. Kauffman was educated in Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology at Dartmouth and Oxford, obtained his medical degree from UCSF in 1968 and has devoted himself to often seminal work in biology and areas of physics and economics since.