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Paperback The Emergence of God Book

ISBN: B0H245ZYHK

ISBN13: 9798197084217

The Emergence of God

Why Speak of the Emergence of God?

The central intuition behind this book is deceptively simple: reality appears to unfold through successive layers of organisation, each one dependent upon the previous level and yet irreducible to it. Wave functions, particles, and atoms give rise to chemistry; chemistry gives rise to life; life give rise to consciousness; consciousness gives rise to culture, technology, and civilisation. At every threshold, something genuinely new appears. The properties of the higher level cannot be completely understood from the perspective of the lower level alone.
A molecule does not know chemistry. A cell does not know the organism. A neuron does not know the mind. Yet each participates in a greater unity whose structure, behaviour, and identity depend upon the integration of its parts without being reducible to them. This repeated pattern raises a profound philosophical question:

Is consciousness the final emergent threshold, or could consciousness itself become the substrate for a still higher level of organisation? Is that God?

This book explores that possibility.

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