{"product_id":"9781584201069","title":"The Marriage Of Sense And Thought","description":"\"In this brilliant book, the authors build a fascinating bridge between science and the world of the senses, a bridge that holds great promise for overcoming the fragmentation and alienation that is so characteristic of our time.\" -Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life\u003cp\u003e\"Rethinking the foundations of a subject as fundamental to our culture as physics is a bold and challenging initiative.... The alternative proposed by the authors could help to heal our alienation from nature-which we are destroying-without losing anything of value from science itself.\" -Brian Goodwin, coauthor of Green Hermeticism and author of How the Leopard Changed Its Spots\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Likely to change many readers' comprehension of science.\" -Arthur Zajonc, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving imagined a machine-like world, scientists now haunt this machine uneasily. Their plight is paradoxical: they have realized their world only through intense mental effort, yet this effort finds no legitimate place in the world it so painstakingly comprehends. It seems \"objectivity\" only comes at a cost. Why, for example, is science unable to describe a smile? Why is the moral life of a physicist regarded as his or her own private affair?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis exclusion of human qualities from science has practical as well as theoretical consequences. If we systematically imagine a world in which human beings don't exist, we will eventually create a world in which they cannot exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReclaiming the human sources of scientific insight, the authors of this book restore the scientist to the world given by science and celebrate the joyous marriage of sense and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SteinerBooks, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046278185200,"sku":"9781584201069","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781584201069_p0.jpg?v=1763784969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781584201069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}