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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (21569)	2/26/2012 1:18:19 PM
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The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality http://www.amazon.com/Matter-Myth-Discoveries-Challenge-Understanding/dp/0671728415 You might like .... The state of physics today is no longer the old mechanistic materialistic view of the universe and the questions of the eternal mind/body question is still completely lying still in the realm of mystery , even the speculations of what causes motion is still not even understood . A developement of the semantics to describe in an intelllgible language of what has yet to be explained in the theory of the non physical mental world has yet to be agreed or defined . What can be known for sure cosmologically from physics is no less defnite than what can be known yet of the mind/body connection . Probably it will be in the realm of neuro science of higher cognizance where many of the answers aree to be found since this involves the world of our own immediate experience which too still remains a mystery . Even the language of chemistry itself when united with physics by Linus Pauling later said of those descriptions being used for chemical bond formulations were only conveniences but really no more than "metaphysical twaddle & a mode of representation only " . about the author: "Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Post-Detection Taskgroup, so that if SETI succeeds in finding intelligent life "