How Science Can Help Us Live In Peace. Markolf H. Niemz

      Universal-Publishers

      Irvine • Boca Raton

      How Science Can Help Us Live In Peace:

      Darwin, Einstein, Whitehead

      Copyright © 2018 Markolf H. Niemz. All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Universal Publishers, Inc.

      Irvine, California & Boca Raton, Florida • USA

       www.Universal-Publishers.com

      2018

      978-1-62734-247-6 (pbk.)

      978-1-62734-248-3 (ebk.)

      Cover design by Ivan Popov.

      Whitehead image on cover cropped from ’Alfred North Whitehead. Photograph.’ . Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Niemz, Markolf H., 1964- author. | Dunn, James D., translator.

      Title: How science can help us live in peace : Darwin, Einstein, Whitehead / Markolf H. Niemz ; [translated by] James D. Dunn.

      Description: Irvine, CA : Universal Publishers, 2018.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018938427 | ISBN 978-1-62734-247-6 (pbk.) | ISBN 978-1-62734-248-3 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. | Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. | Dualism. | Philosophy and science. | Reality--Philosophy. | Knowledge, Theory of. | BISAC: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.

      Classification: LCC Q175 .N54 2018 (print) | LCC Q175 (ebook) | DDC 501--dc23.

      Contents

       The Big Picture

       Self-Delusion

       Interhuman Self-Delusion

       Economic Self-Delusion

       Political Self-Delusion

       Religious Self-Delusion

       Mistaken Reality

       Two or Not Two?

       Shankara’s Rope

       Darwin’s Finches

       Einstein’s Spacetime

       Whitehead’s Processes

       Mistaken Light

       Wave or Particle?

       Diary of God’s Creation

       Light’s Perspective

       The Searchlight Effect

       “I Am the Light of the World.”

       Mistaken Freedom

       Free or Not Free?

       Spatial Degrees of Freedom

       Temporal Degrees of Freedom

       The Free Will

       Freedom and God

       Mistaken Happiness

       Having Luck or Being Happy?

       Neural Messengers of Happiness

       Being Happy Through Mindfulness

       Being Happy Through Humility

       The Appeal by the 14th Dalai Lama

       Awakening to a New Self-Awareness

       The Personal Self

       The Verbal Self

       The Cosmic Self

       “It’s Living Us.”

       Talk with the Author

       Comments by James David Dunn

       10th Anniversary Lucy’s Children Foundation

       Notes

       Picture Credits

       Contact the Author

      to us all

      There’s a perspective

      from which reality does not

      split into space and time.