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The Broader View

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The conclusion arising from the arguments given in this book is that there are other forms of causation than those encompassed by physics and physical chemistry alone, or even in genetics and neuroscience.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/natures-library-of-platonic-forms for an accessible description.

  2. 2.

    The reader will recognise the rest of this section as a polemical text, building on the science in the rest of the book.

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    http://nalibali.org.

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    Described in http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-04-mri-association-young-children-brain.html.

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