What is morality? Do we have free will? Are there any limits to what the human mind can understand? How is it that humans speak? Why do we die? What is it that transcendental meditation transcends?
Reverse Engineering God proposes rational and science-based answers to these and many other related and similar questions. It does so in a series of short 'stories.' Each story presents one question, describes the scientific data available for its solution, shows how these data, when combined with logical inferences, can be used to answer the question, and points to its relation with other questions.
Contents:
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Acknowledgment
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Introduction
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Just So Stories:
- Soul, Mind, Will, and Self (Are) Matter
- A Brief History of Human Kindness: Empathy, Altruism, and Morality
- Being Human: Capabilities
- Being Human: Longing for Purpose
- The Selfplex Rules the World
- Evolution vis-a-vis Creation
- Other Minds
- How Come the Universe, Nature, and Life Exist?: All Beginnings are Difficult
- Concepts
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Not So Stories:
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Epilogue
Readership: The scientifically oriented atheist community, general public.
Key Features:
- Original ideas, clearly presented and integrated in a consistent whole
- The book seeks to grant the three wishes expressed in the Serenity Prayer with respect to these questions. It offers scientific answers to many of these questions, and shows why some of these questions are indeed beyond the scope of human understanding
- Answering these requests and showing that science and reason still can, to some extent, deal with things that we don't quite understand, the book enables us to reach the serenity we need to accept our inability to fully understand everything
