| THE MIND OF GOD |
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| CONTENTS |
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| PREFACE |
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| CHAPTER 1 RESON AND BELIEF |
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| The Scientific Miracle |
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| Human reson and common sense |
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| Thoughts about thought |
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| A rational world |
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| Metaphysics: who needs it? |
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| Time and eternity: The fundamental paradox of existence |
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| CHAPTER 2 CAN THE UNIVERSE CREATE ITSELF? |
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| Was there a creation event? |
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| Creation from nothing |
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| The beginning of time |
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| Cyclic world revisited |
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| Continuous Creation |
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| Did God cause the Big Bang? |
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| Creation without creation |
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| Mother and child universes |
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| CHAPTER 3 WHAT AE THE LAWS OF NATURE? |
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| The origin of law |
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| The cosmic code |
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| The status of the laws today |
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| What does it mean for somehing to "exist"? |
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| In the beginning |
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| CHAPTER 4 MATHEMATICS AND REALITY |
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| Magic numbers |
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| Mechanizing mathematics |
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| The uncomputable |
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| Why does Arithmetic work? |
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| Russian dolls and artificial life |
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| CHAPTER 5 REAL WORLDS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS |
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| Simulating reality |
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| Is the universe a computer? |
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| The unattainable |
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| The unknowable |
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| The cosmic program |
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| CHAPTER 6 THE MATHEMATICAL SECRET |
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| Is Mathematics already "out there"? |
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| The cosmic computer |
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| Why us? |
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| Why are the laws of nature mathematica? |
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| How can we know something without knowing everything? |
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| CHAPTER 7 WHY IS THE WORLD THE WAY IT IS? |
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| An intelligible universe |
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| A unique theory of everything |
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| Contingent order |
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| The best of all possible worlds? |
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| Beauty as a guide to truth |
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| Is God necessary? |
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| A dipolar God and wheeler's cloud |
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| Does God have to exist? |
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| The options |
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| A God who plays dice |
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| CHAPTER 8 DESIGNER UNIVERSE |
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| The unity of the universe |
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| Life is so difficult |
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| Has the universe been designed by an itelligent creator? |
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| The ingenuity of nature |
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| A place for everything and everything in its place |
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| Is there need for a designer? |
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| Multiple realities |
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| Cosmological darwinism |
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| CHAPTER 9 THE MYSTERY AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE |
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| Turtle power |
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| Mystical knowledge |
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| What is man? |
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| Notes |
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| Select bibliography |
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| Index |
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