Introduction
1. Just One … but Dual!
A Summary of Old, Classical, and Modern Views
Quantum, Prigogine, and Contemporary Science
Uniqueness of Self-Conscience
Rationality, Intuition, and Common Sense
Duality and the Creative Tension of Antinomies
2. Second Principle of Thermodynamics: Is Any Door Really Closed?
From Simple Hydrogen to Complex Life
Evolution, Emergency, Mind
Time’s Flow and the Increasing Brain Size
Intelligent Life in the Expanding Universe
Entropy: A Law or Just a Principle?
Is the Analysis Complete?
Human Actions Produce Work, as Other Forces Do!
Thermal Death or ‘Intelligent Design’?
Will Always Be Valid All What We Believe Today?
3. Integrative Considerations
Intelligibility and Hidden Aspects of Reality
Asserted and Denied Truths
The Exophysical Point of View
Intersubjectivity, Endophysics
Life vs Ambient
Epilogue by Evgeni B. Starikov
Biography
Rosolino Buccheri was research director in astrophysics and cosmic physics at the Instituto di Fisica Cosmica e Applicazioni dell’Informatica and the Area della Ricerca in Palermo, Italy. He has the discovery of the first superfast binary pulsar from the Arecibo Observatory and the detailed pulsed radiation from the Crab and Vela pulsars with the Cos-B satellite to his credit. Dr Buccheri has published 200 scientific articles, co-authored the book L’idea del Tempo (UTET, Milano) with Margherita Hack and Pippo Battaglia, and authored the books Fra il mito della certezza e la certezza del Mito (Saladino, Palermo) and Myth, Chaos, and Certainty: Notes on Cosmos, Life, and Knowledge (Jenny Stanford Publishing, Singapore).
