Download or read book Natural Fabrications written by William Seager and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities. The almost infinite variety and complexity of the world is thus the product of emergence. But the concept of emergence is fraught with controversy and confusion. This book ponders the question of how emergence should be understood within the scientific picture, and whether a complete vision of the world can be attained that includes consciousness.