Marcelo Gleiser

A natural philosophy expert who is also a physics and astronomy professor discusses the limits of scientific explanations and how our knowledge of the universe and its nature will always remain necessarily incomplete. 15,000 first printing.

The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

The Island of Knowledge

A Manifesto for Humanity's Future

Dawn of a Mindful Universe

Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human

Great Minds Don't Think Alike

From Creation Myths to the Big Bang

The Dancing Universe

O que aconteceu no momento da Criação? Houve um instante determinado em que o Universo que nos rodeia surgiu? Essas questões são tão antigas como a própria humanidade. Muitos procuram resposta nos mitos e na religião. Outros, nas teorias científicas. Em 'A dança do Universo', o físico brasileiro Marcelo Gleiser mostra em linguagem clara que esses dois enfoques não são tão distantes quanto imaginamos, apresentando versões de diversas culturas para o mistério da Criação, até desembocar na explicação da ciência moderna para a origem do Universo.

dos mitos de criação ao Big-Bang

A dança do universo

Adam Frank

Evan Thompson

A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. It’s tempting to think that science gives us a God’s-eye view of reality. But we neglect the place of human experience at our peril. In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes—rather than ignores or tries not to see—humanity’s lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. The authors present science not as discovering an absolute reality but rather as a highly refined, constantly evolving form of human experience. They urge practitioners to reframe how science works for the sake of our future in the face of the planetary climate crisis and increasing science denialism. Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, humanity has looked to science to tell us who we are, where we come from, and where we’re going, but we’ve gotten stuck thinking we can know the universe from outside our position in it. When we try to understand reality only through external physical things imagined from this outside position, we lose sight of the necessity of experience. This is the Blind Spot, which the authors show lies behind our scientific conundrums about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, AI and the mind, consciousness, and Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge is a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it evolving together. To finally “see” the Blind Spot is to awaken from a delusion of absolute knowledge and to see how reality and experience intertwine. The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature’s self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.

Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

The Blind Spot

An award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change. Since Copernicus, humanity has increasingly seen itself as adrift, an insignificant speck within a large, cold universe. Brazilian physicist, astronomer, and winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize Marcelo Gleiser argues that it is because we have lost the spark of the Enlightenment that has guided human development over the past several centuries. While some scientific efforts have been made to overcome this increasingly bleak perspective—the ongoing search for life on other planets, the recent idea of the multiverse—they have not been enough to overcome the core problem: we’ve lost our moral mission and compassionate focus in our scientific endeavors. Gleiser argues that we’re using the wrong paradigm to relate to the universe and our position in it. In this deeply researched and beautifully rendered book, he calls for us to embrace a new life-centric perspective, one which recognizes just how rare and precious life is and why it should be our mission to preserve and nurture it. The Dawn of a Mindful Universe addresses the current environmental and scientific impasses and how the scientific community can find solutions to them. Gleiser’s paradigm rethinks the ideals of the Enlightenment, and proposes a new direction for humanity, one driven by human reason and curiosity whose purpose is to save civilization itself. Within this model, we can once again see ourselves as the center of the universe—the place where life becomes conscious—and regain a clear moral compass which can be used to guide both science and the politics around it.

The Dawn of a Mindful Universe

a natural philosopher's quest for trout and the meaning of everything

The simple beauty of the unexpected

Dos mitos de criacÌ§aÌo ao Big-Bang

A dancÌ§a do universo

A Harmonia Do Mundo

a radical new vision for life in an imperfect universe

A tear at the edge of creation

Haverá respostas para todas as perguntas? Poderemos saber tudo sobre o Cosmos? Existirá algo como a natureza verdadeira ou última da realidade? Ser humano é querer saber, mas aquilo que conseguimos apreender é uma minúscula fração do que «há lá fora». Em A Ilha do Conhecimento, o físico Marcelo Gleiser retraça a investigação das respostas às questões fundamentais da existência. Ao fazê-lo, chega a uma conclusão provocadora: a ciência, a principal ferramenta que utilizamos para encontrar respostas, tem limites estritos. A essência da realidade é incognoscível. Ao narrar a história empolgante da investigação científica, A Ilha do Conhecimento apresenta uma análise muito original das ideias de alguns dos maiores pensadores da história, de Platão a Einstein, fazendo-nos refletir sobre o significado de se ser humano num universo dominado pelo mistério.--From publisher description.

os limites da ciêcia e a procura de significado

A ilha do conhecimento

رقص جهان

An astrophysicist--the author of "The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang"--guides readers through the celestial apocalypse, from Revelations to the Big Crunch. 30 illustrations.

A Scientific Journey to the End of Time

The Prophet and the Astronomer

Available again, with a new preface, a physicist's "exceptionally clear summary of 2,500 years of science and a fascinating account of the ways in which it often does intersect with spiritual beliefs" --Kirkus Reviews

Does technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights or will they unleash dystopias? How do we face mortality, our own and that of our warming planet? Questions like these—which are only growing more urgent—can be answered only by drawing on different kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing. They challenge us to bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities and bring together perspectives that are too often kept apart. Great Minds Don’t Think Alike presents conversations among leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals that exemplify openness to diverse viewpoints and the productive exchange of ideas. Pulitzer and Templeton Prize winners, MacArthur “genius” grant awardees, and other acclaimed writers and thinkers debate the big questions: who we are, the nature of reality, science and religion, consciousness and materialism, and the mysteries of time. In so doing, they also inquire into how uniting experts from different areas of study to consider these topics might help us address the existential risks we face today. Convened and moderated by the physicist and author Marcelo Gleiser, these public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future. Contributors include David Chalmers and Antonio Damasio; Sean Carroll and B. Alan Wallace; Patricia Churchland and Jill Tarter; Rebecca Goldstein and Alan Lightman; Jimena Canales and Paul Davies; Ed Boyden and Mark O’Connell; Elizabeth Kolbert and Siddhartha Mukherjee; Jeremy DeSilva, David Grinspoon, and Tasneem Zehra Husain.

Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Físico brasileiro que atua como pesquisador em instituições americanas, Marcelo Gleiser tornou-se conhecido do público com `Dança do Universo', com mais de 40 mil exemplares vendidos. Neste novo livro, ele traduz o conhecimento científico em `língua de gente', unindo a ciência e o cotidiano. Esta coletânea traz cinqüenta textos, publicados originalmente no jornal 'Folha de S.Paulo' e reelaborados para a edição em livro, refletindo uma convicção forte do autor - a livre circulação das informações é condição para o exercício da cidadania. Transformar em 'retalhos' o saber compacto da ciência é uma forma de ser cientista e cidadão.

ensaios breves sobre o mundo da ciência e a ciência do mundo

Retalhos cósmicos

Mario Sergio Cortella

este primeiro volume da coleção Segredos da Vida, Marcelo Gleiser convida Mario Sergio Cortella a conversar sobre tempo, filosofia, criatividade, livre-arbítrio e ética, entre outros assuntos fundamentais. Neste livro-conversa, Marcelo Gleiser e Mario Sergio Cortella examinam a fundo questões que nos remetem ao passado, às origens da filosofia, ao questionamento do que significa viver com humanidade, conscientemente, com um senso moral maior, que celebre o respeito pelo outro. Os dois pensadores fazem um passeio iluminado por 3 mil anos de conhecimento, incluindo filosofia, história, religião e ciência, na busca por compreender o maior dos mistérios: o que significa ser humano, ser um animal capaz de imaginar o infinito e contemplar a eternidade. Somos criaturas do tempo. Nascemos, vivemos, morremos, somos (ou não) lembrados. Viver bem é saber viver com o tempo, saber saborear o que a vida lhe oferece. Mas não de forma passiva. Viver é uma ação, e saber viver requer ação com paixão. Mas de onde vem este ímpeto de viver? O que nos faz acordar todos os dias com um senso de missão a cumprir? O tempo e a vida é um convite à reflexão do que realmente importa na vida, daquilo que nos eleva a um patamar diferenciado de sabedoria. Devemos estar sempre prontos a aprender, com a humildade dos que sabem que pouco sabem e a curiosidade insaciável de uma criança que acredita no amanhã.

O tempo e a vida (Vol. 1 Segredos da vida)

Ian Chillag

Alastair Philip Wiper's precisionist-style color photographs of technology and industry, from CERN to Adidas factories Copenhagen-based British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (born 1980)--known for his journalistic photography in Wired, The Guardian, Scientific American, Wallpaper and Vice--explores the technological and digital revolution in his color photographs of factories, labs, shipyards and industrial sites in this new monograph.

Alastair Philip Wiper: Unintended Beauty

For millennia' humankind has searched for an intellectual Holy Grail - a unifying theory to explain the origins of the universe and our place in it. Our greatest minds' from Pythagoras and Aristotle to Galileo' Newton and Einstein' have explained the universe in terms of symmetry' harmony and order. Yet despite their best efforts' a 'theory of everything' has remained elusive' and for good reason. In Imperfect Creation' Marcelo Gleiser argues that there is no grand plan' cosmic blueprint or overarching explanation for our existence. In fact' the latest evidence reveals that not only are there imperfections in the fabric of the universe - they are the driving' creative forces behind its very existence. The universe' it turns out' is not elegant. It is gloriously messy. In an absorbing narrative' Gleiser takes us to the first moments of creation' where an imbalance produced more matter than anti - matter - the birth of the physical universe. He explains the role of imperfection in the formation of galaxies and planets' and the accidents that led to the appearance of life on Earth. And his enquiries go beyond science; if there is no 'guiding principle' behind creation' then what is the nature and role of intelligent life. Imperfect Creation offers a fresh new perspective on life in an evolving cosmos. It will change the way we see ourselves and our place in the universe.

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