Part of the program of the new philosophy is to save cosmology from an unscientific excursion by recognizing the central role time plays on a cosmological scale. That scientific task has been the focus of this book. But equally important, a civilization whose scientists and philosophers teach that time is an illusion and the future is fixed is unlikely to summon the imaginative power to invent the communion of political organizations, technology, and natural processes — a communion essential if we are to thrive sustainably beyond this century.
