The evolution of meaning
By: Fred H. Wöhlbier
Series: Science-meets-philosophy forum -- v. 2; Science-meets-philosophy forum -- v. 2.
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zũrich-Durnten
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9783038590439; 9783908158967
Subjects: Philosophy and science; Meaning (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: ch. 1; title: What is it All About? --; title: The Scientific Method --; title: The Tree of Nature --; title: The Tree of Everything -- -- ch. 2; title: The Material Base of Nature --; title: Atoms --; title: Elementary Particles --; title: Up Quark and Down Quark --; title: Electron --; title: Electron-Neutrino --; title: Matter --; title: Three Families of Matter -- -- ch. 3; title: Information Processing Events --; title: Gravity --; title: The Electromagnetic (EM) Force --; title: The Nuclear Forces --; title: The Four Types of Forces --; title: Something to Wonder About --; title: The Interaction between Particles --; title: The Information-Processing Triplet of Parameters -- -- ch. 4; title: Law-like Information --; title: The General Information Cycle --; title: The Reality Status of the Laws of Nature --; title: The Emergence of Law-Like Information --; title: Biological Events --; title: Conscious Events --; title: Mental Causation --; title: The Conceptual Level --; title: The Category of Conscious Events --; title: Cultural Events --; title: The Four Categories of Law-Like Information -- -- ch. 5; title: Universal History --; title: Spacetime --; title: The Spacetime Tetrad --; title: Spacetime and Law-like Information --; title: The History Triplet of the Tree of Everything --; title: Subjectivity -- -- ch. 6; title: Subjectivity --; title: Physical Perceptions --; title: Elementary Feelings --; title: Propositional Perceptions --; title: Volitions --; title: Four Aspects of Subjectivity -- -- ch. 7; title: The Essential Dimensions --; title: Freedom --; title: Truth, Goodness and Beauty --; title: The Four Essential Dimensions -- -- ch. 8; title: What is it All About? --; title: The Universe as a 'Meaning Circuit' --; title: The Superstructure of the Tree of Everything --; title: Why Does the World Exist? --; title: The Top Node of the Tree of Everything -- -- ch. 9; title: Predictions and Conjectures.