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The modern scientific worldview that resists the idea of objective life in space.
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- Traces intellectual resistance to a deep-seated worldview.
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- Degrees of LifementionsChapter 2, introducing the concept that all space has an objective, measurable degree of life.
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- The dominant model of space as neutral, mechanistic, and composed of independent parts; critiqued throughout.
- The dominant scientific world-picture treating matter as inert, lifeless mechanism obeying mathematical laws, originating with Bacon, Descartes, Newton.
- Explanations derived from model internals that describe the biological mechanism of variant effect.
- Traditional efficient causation paradigm; Juarrero argues it is inadequate for understanding intentional action and self-organizing systems.
- The existential consequence of the mechanistic cosmology: the world has no point, no value, no purpose, leading to despair and banality in art.
- A method of defining generic centers through narrative descriptions of human experience and deep feeling, used in the Mary Rose Museum process.