Product Details:
Softbound Edition
- Softbound; 254 pages; 15.2 x 22.9 (centimeters); 6 x 9 (inches)
- illustrations throughout; index
- Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust; First issue: 1981
- ISBN: 0-89213-148-9
- Suggested Audience: Advanced
Modern science theorizes that humans are simply a chemical machine, a device to produce more genes like themselves. This theory is challenged here with sound scientific evidence.
The problem with the scientific theory that everything has a basis in a chemical reality is consciousness. Consciousness is a concept scientists continue to grabble with as they attempt to fit it into their scientific theories.
But consciousness isn’t a neat fit into chemistry and physics. It is not amenable to a molecular explanation. But an explanation it needs.
Explore the fascinating journey of a scientist exploring consciousness in mechanistic and nonmechanistic terms.
From the back cover:
“I liked the third chapter of Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science very much. In particular it acquainted me some with the Bhagavad-gita. I learned that the basic philosophical ideas of this on ‘existence’ are virtually identical with those which quantum mechanics lead me to.”
“In Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science Dr. Thompson makes a number of cogent arguments against the usual scientific picture of life and evolution (which do not accept the existence of higher or subtler levels of organization). He also presents a clear alternative model. I think it is an important book, which would be of interest to many people.
