Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

Pier Luigi Luisi; with Zara Houshmand

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Paper, 232 pages, 59 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14551-0
$17.95 / £12.95

October, 2008
Cloth, 232 pages, 59 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14550-3
$24.95 / £16.95

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. How Real Are the Elementary Particles?

2. The Emergence of Complexity; and an Interview with Matthieu Ricard

3. Toward the Complexity of Life

4. How Life Unfolds; and an Interview with Richard Gere

5. The Magic of the Human Genome and Its Ethical Problems; and an Interview with His Holiness the Karmapa

6. From Consciousness to Ethics

7. Last Words

About the Mind and Life Institute

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Science

Series

• Columbia Series in Science and Religion

About the Author

Pier Luigi Luisi is professor of biology at the University of Roma 3 and the author of The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology. His major research has been in the fields of self-organization of chemical systems and the emergence of novel functional properties as a result of increased complexity.

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