The Great Knowledge Transcendence [electronic resource] : The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed /
Jin, Dengjian.author.
This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Unnatural Knowledge; Part I The 1492 Question and the Great Knowledge Transcendence Framework; 2 The 1492 Question and the Needham Puzzle; 3 The Transcendence View of Human Creativity; Part II Cognitive Limits to Natural Knowledge Creation; 4 The Limits of the Core Knowledge Systems; 5 The Limits of the Knowledge Generation Systems; Part III The Limited Evolvability of Premodern Knowledge; 6 The Partial Transcendence of the Axial Age; 7 The Limits of Natural Knowers; 8 The Limits of Natural Societies of Minds
Part IV The Advent of Transcendental Knowing9 The First Mover; 10 Artificial Mechanisms for Knowledge Transcendence; 11 Sustained Knowledge Transcendence: Impacts and Implications; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.
World history.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
History.
Popular works.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Science.
Popular Science, general.