Figments of Reality
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چکیده
In popular books about science these days, big theories about Big Questions are everywhere. A scan through the science shelves of your local bookshop will produce titles such as “The Origins of Order”, “Dreams of a Final Theory”, “Consciousness Explained”, and many more, describing unifying theories about elementary particles, evolution, life, mind, and culture. Is the time now ripe for the diverse threads of science to be pulled together into a single skein?
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