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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the forces and matter of the universe could be arranged on a single axis This book begins with a simple but provocative idea: frequency may be the common coordinate of physical reality. Starting from two famous formulas-Planck's (E=h) and Einstein's (E=mc^2)-it shows how energy, mass, particles, and forces can all be translated into the language of frequency. From there, it builds a new kind of 'periodic table' not a table of chemical elements, but a table of Energyons and Massyons, where force carriers and matter particles are placed along the same frequency spectrum.Written in a clear popular-science style, the book guides readers from blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, de Broglie waves, and Compton scattering to a broader frequency-based picture of the universe. It explains why high-frequency forces tend to be intense and short-ranged, while low-frequency forces tend to be weak but long-reaching. The strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force, and gravity are presented not as isolated phenomena, but as different behaviors of one underlying energy-density field across different frequency layers.The book then extends this table into cosmology. The history of the universe is read as a process of stepwise cooling and freezing: high-frequency structures appear first, atoms and light emerge later, gravity patiently gathers matter into stars and galaxies, while dark matter and dark energy occupy the most mysterious blank regions of the table. These blank spaces are treated with caution: they are not claimed as established facts, but presented as testable directions for future inquiry.In its final chapters, the book asks an even more daring question: if particles, forces, stars, and galaxies can be understood through frequency structures, could consciousness also have a place in this broader map The answer is deliberately left open. Rather than offering a final solution, the book uses this question to clarify the boundary between scientific explanation, philosophical speculation, and honest uncertainty.The Second Periodic Table is both a guided tour of modern physics and an imaginative proposal for seeing it anew. It does not ask readers to accept a completed theory. Instead, it invites them to stand before a new table of the universe-filled with known entries, uncertain estimates, and open blanks-and ask what reality might look like if frequency were its deepest organizing coordinate.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mind--Matter Unity: Consciousness and Subjectivity in the EQT Process Philosophy of Nature develops a systematic account of consciousness within the framework of Energy Quantum Theory (EQT). The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of structure, function, and information processing. Instead of claiming to dissolve this problem by definition, function, emergence, or identity alone, the book proposes a more restrained strategy: to clarify everything that can be structurally and physically explained, and to mark precisely the residual point that cannot be reduced.The central thesis is that first-person experience and specific gradient configurations of the frequency-resolved energy quantum density field, (\rho_f), are isomorphic at the strongest level: they are two aspects of the same underlying process. The structure of experience is argued to correspond to five sources of richness in (\rho_f): single-frequency gradient configurations, frequency families, master-equation evolution, resonance modes, and transient timescale spectra. These five sources are used to account for qualitative variation, differences among qualitative kinds, the stream of consciousness, unity and binding, temporal thickness, and memory.The book then distinguishes structural isomorphism from given-ness. Experience is not merely a structure; it is given from within. This given-ness is characterized as internal--external co-evolutionary freezing within a bounded interior. The boundary of life, especially the membrane as the first topological interior, becomes the gate that separates living given-ness from non-living physical interaction. This allows the book to reject both panpsychism and functionalist substrate-independence: not every coupled system has experience, and artificial systems without a genuine life-boundary do not possess the precondition of given-ness.A further part of the argument explains how sensation becomes cognized experience through memory transients, knowledge structures, comparison, language, and symbolic organization. It also develops an account of subjectivity: experience becomes "mine" through (\mathcal{B})-demarcation, the attributional projection of dominant coherence. Disorders such as depersonalization, thought insertion, split brain, dissociation, and covert consciousness are treated as test cases for this framework.The measurable side of the theory is expressed through the projection tensor (\Psi=(\tilde{A}, C, \mathcal{B})), where (\tilde{A}) refers to the dissipative power required to maintain non-equilibrium co-evolution, (C) to differentiation and integration, and (\mathcal{B}) to the boundary of coherent co-evolution. The book connects these quantities to EEG/MEG, fMRI/PET, TMS-EEG, effective connectivity, and other empirical interfaces. It also presents falsifiable predictions, especially the frequency--quality correspondence and the frequency--timescale relation (\tau_{\mathrm{retain}} \sim \tau_0/f).Philosophically, the book defends an open-process dual-aspect monism. Mind and matter are not two substances, nor is consciousness reduced to function or eliminated as illusion. Rather, mind and matter are two directions of access to the same (\rho_f) process: externally as gradient structure and co-evolution, internally as given experience. Yet the book also preserves an irreducible final cell: why the internal side of this process is experienced at all. This residual point is not treated as failure, but as the honest boundary of physical and structural explanation. The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book develops a systematic philosophy of nature at the boundary between physics, metaphysics, and the humanities. It is not a technical extension of the five-volume project on Energy Quantum Theory (EQT), but an independent philosophical work prompted by that project: an attempt to articulate the conceptual, ontological, and normative implications that emerge when physical theory is pursued to its limits.At the center of the book is the method of constrained speculation. The book argues that metaphysical thought need not abandon speculation, but speculation becomes philosophically legitimate only when disciplined by formal articulation, mechanistic intelligibility, observational anchoring, and explicit failure conditions. On this basis, it proposes a criterion of ontological commitment: something is ontologically real insofar as its commitment has definable conditions under which it could fail. This shifts realism away from simple correspondence and toward a disciplined account of commitments, limits, and testability.The ontology developed from this method may be called constrained process realism. It rejects the priority of static substances and treats beings as structured processes: differences, gradients, frequencies, three-state formations, co-evolutionary relations, and freezing transitions. Entities are not self-sufficient substances but relatively stable formations generated by dynamic processes. "Freezing" is therefore not cessation, equilibrium, or disappearance, but a basic ontological process through which active dynamics withdraw into residual structures, backgrounds, and histories.The book unfolds this position across five movements. The first clarifies constrained speculation and its relation to falsifiability, ontological parsimony, and constitutive coextension. The second defends a gradient ontology in which difference precedes identity, frequency becomes an ontological dimension, and the three states of freedom, binding, and condensation function as basic categories of being. The third develops a relational ontology of co-evolution, applying it to mind-matter unity, observation, objectivity, and time. The fourth examines the metaphysical boundary of freezing, culminating in the gradient end state as an internal ontological singularity. The fifth turns to normativity, asking how meaning, value, and human dignity remain possible under ultimate finitude.A central thesis of the book is that meaning exists before freezing. Physically, this refers to the interval in which gradients persist and structured processes remain active. Philosophically, it means that meaning depends on the capacity to maintain distinctions, make choices, and sustain direction. Humanistically, it affirms that finitude does not weaken meaning but constitutes its condition of truth. Meaning is real not because it is eternal, but because it is finite, vulnerable, selective, and alive.The book engages Popper, Quine, Davidson, Whitehead, Cartwright, Ladyman, Floridi, Rovelli, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Hume, Moore, Chalmers, and Barad, while also drawing on Chinese philosophy, especially qi theory, the Yijing tradition, Huayan Buddhism, Madhyamaka, and Confucian practical wisdom. Its aim is not to reduce these traditions to EQT, nor to claim that they anticipated modern physics, but to place them in a disciplined cross-cultural conversation about process, relation, finitude, and meaning.Ultimately, the book argues that philosophy is not a residue left behind by science, but something called forth when science reaches its deepest conceptual boundaries. When physics pursues the limits of its own assumptions, it encounters questions that are no longer purely physical: being, objectivity, failure, value, and the dignity of finite existence. At that boundary, natural philosophy returns-not as a re Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Everything Flows begins with a simple but unsettling thought from Heraclitus: Panta rhei-everything flows. Nothing in the universe stands still. Matter changes, energy moves, stars burn, cells divide, memories fade, and even the self is not a fixed object but a living process.This book invites general readers on a journey from ancient philosophy to modern physics, from the arrow of time to the birth of galaxies, from the structure of matter to the emergence of life and consciousness. At its center is a new way of seeing the universe: not primarily as a collection of things, but as a continuous field of change. Frequency becomes the language of energy; time becomes the measure of change; space becomes the map of how change is distributed; force becomes the movement of differences seeking balance.Along the way, the book revisits some of the deepest questions in science and philosophy. Why does a burned sheet of paper never return to its original form Why did the universe not remain a uniform cosmic soup How did tiny quantum fluctuations grow into galaxies, stars, planets, life, and minds Why does consciousness arise in living systems And if everything is finite and irreversible, where can meaning be found Written in an accessible popular-science style, Everything Flows does not ask readers to master advanced mathematics or formal physics. Instead, it uses clear images, familiar examples, and a carefully layered narrative to show how one central idea-change-can connect thermodynamics, cosmology, quantum theory, evolution, neuroscience, and the philosophy of meaning.The book does not claim to provide final answers to every mystery. It is honest about the limits of science, especially on questions such as consciousness, cosmic fine-tuning, and ultimate meaning. But it offers a coherent framework for thinking about them: the universe carries history through irreversible processes, and every structure-from atoms to DNA to memory-is a trace of change that has become temporarily stable.In the end, the book returns to the human condition. We are finite, unrepeatable beings in a finite, evolving universe. This finitude is not merely a limitation; it is what gives each moment its weight. Meaning does not wait at some eternal endpoint. It emerges while the process is still alive-before it freezes into memory, structure, or history.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Silent Presupposition is a philosophical inquiry into four decisive breakthroughs in modern physics: special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and electroweak unification. Rather than treating these breakthroughs as purely mathematical or experimental achievements, the book asks a deeper question: what hidden assumptions had to be questioned before new physics could become possible The book argues that major advances in physics often begin when a concept long regarded as self-evident is brought back into question. In 1905, Einstein redefined simultaneity operationally and loosened the assumption of absolute time. In 1915, the equivalence principle transformed gravity from a force into a relational manifestation of spacetime geometry. In 1927, quantum mechanics forced physicists to reconsider whether phenomena exist independently of observational arrangements. In 1967, electroweak unification became possible only after accepting that the vacuum itself could be asymmetric.Through these historical cases, the book identifies a recurring spiral structure: physical tension emerges; a silent ontological presupposition is interrogated; mathematics finds a new form; and the resulting theory generates testable predictions while leaving behind a deeper question. The book then applies this same framework to the past thirty years of theoretical physics, diagnosing the narrowing empirical interface between mathematical sophistication and falsifiable prediction.The final chapters turn this analytical tool toward Energy Quantum Theory (EQT) itself. Rather than presenting EQT as a completed answer, the book treats it as a case study in self-examination: Which presuppositions does it question What new mathematical form does it propose What predictions could falsify it What problems remain unresolved Written for readers with an interest in physics, philosophy of science, and the foundations of theoretical inquiry, The Silent Presupposition offers a restrained but ambitious thesis: unification is not achieved by mathematics alone. It begins when physics becomes willing to ask again what it has silently assumed all along.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mind--Matter Unity: Consciousness and Subjectivity in the EQT Process Philosophy of Nature develops a systematic account of consciousness within the framework of Energy Quantum Theory (EQT). The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of structure, function, and information processing. Instead of claiming to dissolve this problem by definition, function, emergence, or identity alone, the book proposes a more restrained strategy: to clarify everything that can be structurally and physically explained, and to mark precisely the residual point that cannot be reduced.The central thesis is that first-person experience and specific gradient configurations of the frequency-resolved energy quantum density field, (\rho_f), are isomorphic at the strongest level: they are two aspects of the same underlying process. The structure of experience is argued to correspond to five sources of richness in (\rho_f): single-frequency gradient configurations, frequency families, master-equation evolution, resonance modes, and transient timescale spectra. These five sources are used to account for qualitative variation, differences among qualitative kinds, the stream of consciousness, unity and binding, temporal thickness, and memory.The book then distinguishes structural isomorphism from given-ness. Experience is not merely a structure; it is given from within. This given-ness is characterized as internal--external co-evolutionary freezing within a bounded interior. The boundary of life, especially the membrane as the first topological interior, becomes the gate that separates living given-ness from non-living physical interaction. This allows the book to reject both panpsychism and functionalist substrate-independence: not every coupled system has experience, and artificial systems without a genuine life-boundary do not possess the precondition of given-ness.A further part of the argument explains how sensation becomes cognized experience through memory transients, knowledge structures, comparison, language, and symbolic organization. It also develops an account of subjectivity: experience becomes "mine" through (\mathcal{B})-demarcation, the attributional projection of dominant coherence. Disorders such as depersonalization, thought insertion, split brain, dissociation, and covert consciousness are treated as test cases for this framework.The measurable side of the theory is expressed through the projection tensor (\Psi=(\tilde{A}, C, \mathcal{B})), where (\tilde{A}) refers to the dissipative power required to maintain non-equilibrium co-evolution, (C) to differentiation and integration, and (\mathcal{B}) to the boundary of coherent co-evolution. The book connects these quantities to EEG/MEG, fMRI/PET, TMS-EEG, effective connectivity, and other empirical interfaces. It also presents falsifiable predictions, especially the frequency--quality correspondence and the frequency--timescale relation (\tau_{\mathrm{retain}} \sim \tau_0/f).Philosophically, the book defends an open-process dual-aspect monism. Mind and matter are not two substances, nor is consciousness reduced to function or eliminated as illusion. Rather, mind and matter are two directions of access to the same (\rho_f) process: externally as gradient structure and co-evolution, internally as given experience. Yet the book also preserves an irreducible final cell: why the internal side of this process is experienced at all. This residual point is not treated as failure, but as the honest boundary of physical and structural explanation. The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent o Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book develops a systematic philosophy of nature at the boundary between physics, metaphysics, and the humanities. It is not a technical extension of the five-volume project on Energy Quantum Theory (EQT), but an independent philosophical work prompted by that project: an attempt to articulate the conceptual, ontological, and normative implications that emerge when physical theory is pursued to its limits.At the center of the book is the method of constrained speculation. The book argues that metaphysical thought need not abandon speculation, but speculation becomes philosophically legitimate only when disciplined by formal articulation, mechanistic intelligibility, observational anchoring, and explicit failure conditions. On this basis, it proposes a criterion of ontological commitment: something is ontologically real insofar as its commitment has definable conditions under which it could fail. This shifts realism away from simple correspondence and toward a disciplined account of commitments, limits, and testability.The ontology developed from this method may be called constrained process realism. It rejects the priority of static substances and treats beings as structured processes: differences, gradients, frequencies, three-state formations, co-evolutionary relations, and freezing transitions. Entities are not self-sufficient substances but relatively stable formations generated by dynamic processes. "Freezing" is therefore not cessation, equilibrium, or disappearance, but a basic ontological process through which active dynamics withdraw into residual structures, backgrounds, and histories.The book unfolds this position across five movements. The first clarifies constrained speculation and its relation to falsifiability, ontological parsimony, and constitutive coextension. The second defends a gradient ontology in which difference precedes identity, frequency becomes an ontological dimension, and the three states of freedom, binding, and condensation function as basic categories of being. The third develops a relational ontology of co-evolution, applying it to mind-matter unity, observation, objectivity, and time. The fourth examines the metaphysical boundary of freezing, culminating in the gradient end state as an internal ontological singularity. The fifth turns to normativity, asking how meaning, value, and human dignity remain possible under ultimate finitude.A central thesis of the book is that meaning exists before freezing. Physically, this refers to the interval in which gradients persist and structured processes remain active. Philosophically, it means that meaning depends on the capacity to maintain distinctions, make choices, and sustain direction. Humanistically, it affirms that finitude does not weaken meaning but constitutes its condition of truth. Meaning is real not because it is eternal, but because it is finite, vulnerable, selective, and alive.The book engages Popper, Quine, Davidson, Whitehead, Cartwright, Ladyman, Floridi, Rovelli, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Hume, Moore, Chalmers, and Barad, while also drawing on Chinese philosophy, especially qi theory, the Yijing tradition, Huayan Buddhism, Madhyamaka, and Confucian practical wisdom. Its aim is not to reduce these traditions to EQT, nor to claim that they anticipated modern physics, but to place them in a disciplined cross-cultural conversation about process, relation, finitude, and meaning.Ultimately, the book argues that philosophy is not a residue left behind by science, but something called forth when science reaches its deepest conceptual boundaries. When physics pursues the limits of its own assumptions, it encounters questions that are no longer purely physical: being, objectivity, failure, value, and the dignity of finite existence. At that boundary, natural philosophy return Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book develops a systematic philosophy of nature at the boundary between physics, metaphysics, and the humanities. It is not a technical extension of the five-volume project on Energy Quantum Theory (EQT), but an independent philosophical work prompted by that project: an attempt to articulate the conceptual, ontological, and normative implications that emerge when physical theory is pursued to its limits.At the center of the book is the method of constrained speculation. The book argues that metaphysical thought need not abandon speculation, but speculation becomes philosophically legitimate only when disciplined by formal articulation, mechanistic intelligibility, observational anchoring, and explicit failure conditions. On this basis, it proposes a criterion of ontological commitment: something is ontologically real insofar as its commitment has definable conditions under which it could fail. This shifts realism away from simple correspondence and toward a disciplined account of commitments, limits, and testability.The ontology developed from this method may be called constrained process realism. It rejects the priority of static substances and treats beings as structured processes: differences, gradients, frequencies, three-state formations, co-evolutionary relations, and freezing transitions. Entities are not self-sufficient substances but relatively stable formations generated by dynamic processes. "Freezing" is therefore not cessation, equilibrium, or disappearance, but a basic ontological process through which active dynamics withdraw into residual structures, backgrounds, and histories.The book unfolds this position across five movements. The first clarifies constrained speculation and its relation to falsifiability, ontological parsimony, and constitutive coextension. The second defends a gradient ontology in which difference precedes identity, frequency becomes an ontological dimension, and the three states of freedom, binding, and condensation function as basic categories of being. The third develops a relational ontology of co-evolution, applying it to mind-matter unity, observation, objectivity, and time. The fourth examines the metaphysical boundary of freezing, culminating in the gradient end state as an internal ontological singularity. The fifth turns to normativity, asking how meaning, value, and human dignity remain possible under ultimate finitude.A central thesis of the book is that meaning exists before freezing. Physically, this refers to the interval in which gradients persist and structured processes remain active. Philosophically, it means that meaning depends on the capacity to maintain distinctions, make choices, and sustain direction. Humanistically, it affirms that finitude does not weaken meaning but constitutes its condition of truth. Meaning is real not because it is eternal, but because it is finite, vulnerable, selective, and alive.The book engages Popper, Quine, Davidson, Whitehead, Cartwright, Ladyman, Floridi, Rovelli, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Hume, Moore, Chalmers, and Barad, while also drawing on Chinese philosophy, especially qi theory, the Yijing tradition, Huayan Buddhism, Madhyamaka, and Confucian practical wisdom. Its aim is not to reduce these traditions to EQT, nor to claim that they anticipated modern physics, but to place them in a disciplined cross-cultural conversation about process, relation, finitude, and meaning.Ultimately, the book argues that philosophy is not a residue left behind by science, but something called forth when science reaches its deepest conceptual boundaries. When physics pursues the limits of its own assumptions, it encounters questions that are no longer purely physical: being, objectivity, failure, value, and the dignity of finite existence. At that boundary, natural philosophy return Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mind--Matter Unity: Consciousness and Subjectivity in the EQT Process Philosophy of Nature develops a systematic account of consciousness within the framework of Energy Quantum Theory (EQT). The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of structure, function, and information processing. Instead of claiming to dissolve this problem by definition, function, emergence, or identity alone, the book proposes a more restrained strategy: to clarify everything that can be structurally and physically explained, and to mark precisely the residual point that cannot be reduced.The central thesis is that first-person experience and specific gradient configurations of the frequency-resolved energy quantum density field, (\rho_f), are isomorphic at the strongest level: they are two aspects of the same underlying process. The structure of experience is argued to correspond to five sources of richness in (\rho_f): single-frequency gradient configurations, frequency families, master-equation evolution, resonance modes, and transient timescale spectra. These five sources are used to account for qualitative variation, differences among qualitative kinds, the stream of consciousness, unity and binding, temporal thickness, and memory.The book then distinguishes structural isomorphism from given-ness. Experience is not merely a structure; it is given from within. This given-ness is characterized as internal--external co-evolutionary freezing within a bounded interior. The boundary of life, especially the membrane as the first topological interior, becomes the gate that separates living given-ness from non-living physical interaction. This allows the book to reject both panpsychism and functionalist substrate-independence: not every coupled system has experience, and artificial systems without a genuine life-boundary do not possess the precondition of given-ness.A further part of the argument explains how sensation becomes cognized experience through memory transients, knowledge structures, comparison, language, and symbolic organization. It also develops an account of subjectivity: experience becomes "mine" through (\mathcal{B})-demarcation, the attributional projection of dominant coherence. Disorders such as depersonalization, thought insertion, split brain, dissociation, and covert consciousness are treated as test cases for this framework.The measurable side of the theory is expressed through the projection tensor (\Psi=(\tilde{A}, C, \mathcal{B})), where (\tilde{A}) refers to the dissipative power required to maintain non-equilibrium co-evolution, (C) to differentiation and integration, and (\mathcal{B}) to the boundary of coherent co-evolution. The book connects these quantities to EEG/MEG, fMRI/PET, TMS-EEG, effective connectivity, and other empirical interfaces. It also presents falsifiable predictions, especially the frequency--quality correspondence and the frequency--timescale relation (\tau_{\mathrm{retain}} \sim \tau_0/f).Philosophically, the book defends an open-process dual-aspect monism. Mind and matter are not two substances, nor is consciousness reduced to function or eliminated as illusion. Rather, mind and matter are two directions of access to the same (\rho_f) process: externally as gradient structure and co-evolution, internally as given experience. Yet the book also preserves an irreducible final cell: why the internal side of this process is experienced at all. This residual point is not treated as failure, but as the honest boundary of physical and structural explanation. The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent o Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.