Paradoxical life : meaning, matter, and the power of human choice / Andreas Wagner.

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, d...

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Main Author: Wagner, Andreas, 1967 January 26-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
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505 0 |a Introduction: paradox and the power of choice -- The inner dialogue of creation -- The other side of self -- Wholey parts and partly wholes -- Risky refuges -- Destructive creation -- Choice in the fabric of chance and necessity -- Purposeful openness -- Choice and the natural sciences -- The limits to knowledge -- The power and burden of freedom. 
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