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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Don
Nov 15, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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The Big Picture is about exploring the nature of reality by encouraging a “poetic naturalism” point of view. There are three ways of describing the nature of reality:

1 - The deepest most fundamental description. Understanding the particles their properties that make up the universe at the most basic level.
2 - “Emergent” or “Effective” descriptions. These are the macroscopic views of the universe. A “ship” instead of “a collection of atoms”.
3 - Value descriptions. Right and wrong, morality, goals ...more
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