ISBN: 9798187608355 - long live the questions: journeys into the mysteries that make us human (3 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One question drives this entire book: why do the deepest mysteries never actually get solved - they just move?Long Live the Questions argues that this isn't a failure of human intelligence. It's structural. Some questions don't sit behind a locked door waiting for the right key; they sit at a horizon that recedes at exactly the pace you approach it - because the one doing the asking is standing inside the very thing being asked about. A mind trying to fully explain consciousness is like a flashlight trying to illuminate its own bulb.Across twenty chapters, this book takes that idea seriously across five domains: the mystery of existence itself, the mystery of mind and free will, the hidden nature of the sacred, the limits of what we can ever know, and the specific, unresolved fact of being aware that we die. Along the way it engages Leibniz against the logical positivists, Wigner's puzzle over why mathematics predicts reality before we've observed it, the neuroscience of free will, and infrared light hiding in plain sight at the edge of what the eye can see - not as trivia, but as evidence that the boundary between the known and the unknown is more interesting than either side of it alone.This isn't a book that promises to resolve your biggest questions. It's a book that makes the case for why some of them were never going to resolve - and why that might be exactly the point.What you'll find inside: A structured tour through five distinct kinds of mystery: existence, mind, the sacred, knowledge, and mortalityHistorical philosophy and contemporary science treated as one continuous argumentAn honest account of where inquiry runs out - not as a failure, but as the shape of what it means to be a finite mind inside an unfinished question This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One question drives this entire book: why do the deepest mysteries never actually get solved - they just move?Long Live the Questions argues that this isn't a failure of human intelligence. It's structural. Some questions don't sit behind a locked door waiting for the right key; they sit at a horizon that recedes at exactly the pace you approach it - because the one doing the asking is standing inside the very thing being asked about. A mind trying to fully explain consciousness is like a flashlight trying to illuminate its own bulb.Across twenty chapters, this book takes that idea seriously across five domains: the mystery of existence itself, the mystery of mind and free will, the hidden nature of the sacred, the limits of what we can ever know, and the specific, unresolved fact of being aware that we die. Along the way it engages Leibniz against the logical positivists, Wigner's puzzle over why mathematics predicts reality before we've observed it, the neuroscience of free will, and infrared light hiding in plain sight at the edge of what the eye can see - not as trivia, but as evidence that the boundary between the known and the unknown is more interesting than either side of it alone.This isn't a book that promises to resolve your biggest questions. It's a book that makes the case for why some of them were never going to resolve - and why that might be exactly the point.What you'll find inside: A structured tour through five distinct kinds of mystery: existence, mind, the sacred, knowledge, and mortalityHistorical philosophy and contemporary science treated as one continuous argumentAn honest account of where inquiry runs out - not as a failure, but as the shape of what it means to be a finite mind inside an unfinished question This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…