Cosmic Blueprint

by Paul C.W. Davies

Book Overview

In this critically acclaimed book, first published in 1988 and now reprinted in paperback, scientist and author Paul Davies explains how recent scientific advances are transforming our understanding... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671602330
• ISBN13: 9780671602338
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Intuitive Explanation of "Downward Causation"

This book gives a great feel for Downward Causation. Is it a "Straw Man" to label bottom-up clockwork-universe types as "Believing that knowing the Physics behind Random Access Memory, would let you derive the programs stored in it" ? For many, the idea that the universe is NOT absolutely deterministic will still come as a revelation in late 2004. "Absolute Determinism" is a dead horse still in need of much more kicking, as Arthur Koestler's SPCDH might remark. 4 stars, because it rambles more than his later books, but then again there is good stuff in here which isn't repeated in the later books.