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    Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics

    Anthony Aguirre

    A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy

    Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who…

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    Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality

    Anthony Aguirre (Foundational Questions Institute)

    Playful and enchanting. -Priyamvada Natarajan, Wall Street Journal

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    Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality

    Anthony Aguirre (Foundational Questions Institute)

    Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order.

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    Wandering Towards a Goal: How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention?

    This collection of prize-winning essays addresses the controversial question of how meaning and goals can emerge in a physical world governed by mathematical laws. What are the prerequisites for a…

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    What is Fundamental?

    Or are the things that we regard as fundamental in our theories - for example space, time or the masses of elementary particles - merely awaiting a derivation from a…

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    It From Bit or Bit From It?: On Physics and Information

    The essays in this book look at the question of whether physics can be based on information, or - as John Wheeler phrased it - whether we can get It…

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    Trick or Truth?: The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics

    The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the result of human…

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    It From Bit or Bit From It?: On Physics and Information

    The essays in this book look at the question of whether physics can be based on information, or - as John Wheeler phrased it - whether we can get It…

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    Wandering Towards a Goal: How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention?

    This collection of prize-winning essays addresses the controversial question of how meaning and goals can emerge in a physical world governed by mathematical laws. What are the prerequisites for a…

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    Trick or Truth?: The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics

    The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the result of human…

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    Questioning the Foundations of Physics: Which of Our Fundamental Assumptions Are Wrong?

    Questioning the Foundations of Physics

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    How Should Humanity Steer the Future?

    The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial topics that could decisively influence the course of human life on Earth.

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    How Should Humanity Steer the Future?

    The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial topics that could decisively influence the course of human life on Earth.

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    Questioning the Foundations of Physics: Which of Our Fundamental Assumptions Are Wrong?

    Questioning the Foundations of Physics

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