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MIND COSMIC ORDER AND
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How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics
Mind and the Cosmic Order
Charles Pinter
Mind and the Cosmic Order How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics
Charles Pinter Lewisburg, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-50082-5 ISBN 978-3-030-50083-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50083-2
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To the memory of my late wife Donna Krewedl Pinter, without whom this book would not have been written. And to the archetypal muses who gave shape to my words and thoughts
Contents
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Introduction
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2 The Visual World What Do You See When You See? A Scene on a Very Small Stage The Vision of Robots Do We See the World Realistically? The Shapes of Things There Is No Innocent Eye A Necessary Deception The Binding Problem Dueling with Dualism An Evening at the Cartesian Theatre A Peacock’s Tail: The Party Never Ends
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Gestalt Mental Life Gets Organized Seeing the Whole Picture Thinking It and Speaking It Growing the Tree of Knowledge Are Gestalts Real? Immanuel Kant, Philosopher of Gestalt
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Beyond Kant: Created Worlds of Other Animals Centrally Controlled Organisms
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4 The Animal Sensorium Feeling-Matter Structure of the Sensorium The Sensory Basis of Knowledge The Sensory Basis of Meaning The Grand Design The Role of Emotion
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5 The Mind-Made Firmament Carving up the W
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