The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation 9780824866648

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The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation 9780824866648

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface: Self and Interdependence
Acknowledgments
Introduction. From Chaos to Intimacy, A Primer
PART I. Origins
1. Primal Emergence
2. Out of the Dreamtime
PART II. The Ascendance of Cooperation
3. The Quickening of Chemistry
4. Ecology Emergent
5. Intimate Ark: Sex and Emergence
6. Social Order in Nature Between Conflict and Cooperation
PART III. Emergence of the Fractal Self
7. Self within World
8. From Self to Sage
9. From Self to No-Self to All-Self
PART IV. The Fractal Self at Large
10. Anti-sage From Cult to Empire
11. Into Indra’s Net
Notes
Index
About the Authors

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