James’s multiverse cosmology.

In the great turning point at the beginning of the 20th century, this is the trail of an exceptional spirit that explored the “day and night” of the human mind in search of another cosmic consciousness and a different religious consciousness. From the study of anomalous psychological phenomena such as multiple personalities and mediumship, he delved into the world of religious experience, listening to the new meaning and secret music that reason, driven to the brink of stranding, attempts to weave. From science to religion, the experience of leaping over the enormous gap between the two eventually culminates in the revolutionary worldview of the philosophy of “pure experience” and the cosmology of the multiverse. A mandala-like multiverse, full of color, music, and spirituality, encompassing pure experience as the root of life and existence. Intersecting with Kitaro Nishida, D.T. Suzuki, Fechner, Kenji Miyazawa, and others, this book depicts the adventure of a thought that has passed between rationality and irrationality, and has moved toward a lively vision. Kunitake Ito (2009) Amazon

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James’ pragmatism in the multiverse - an empiricism that questions beyond experience. image [Jun Inoguchi]

This book clarifies the path from empiricism to metaphysics and the whole picture of pluralistic cosmology. The multiverse is the most reasonable hypothesis that can be rationally thought about if we are thoroughly attuned to the experience of consciousness. This book unravels James’s convoluted cosmology and clarifies its pragmatist basis and range.

Table of Contents

preface

Chapter 1: Consequences of Thorough Pragmatism —Discovering Passages to Realism Section 1: Restoration of the Philosopher James Section 2: Why Fundamental Empiricism is “Fundamental Section 3: Suspension and Approximation to Perspective Section 4: Consequences of Thorough Pragmatism Section 5: From Pragmatism to Pluralistic Cosmology

Chapter 2: The Turn of Plural Worlds Theory —From the resolution of complexity to the full acceptance of complexity Section 1: Problems Related to the Polysemy of the Universe and World Concepts Section 2: Reduction to “One”: Pluralistic World Theory as a Means of Reducing and Eliminating Complexity Section 3: Phenomena and the Puzzle of the Absolute —The demand for multiple worlds based on the “principle of fullness” and the “chain of being. Section 4: Acceptance of the world as it is: from external plurality to internal plurality

Chapter 3: Aspects of the Pluralistic Universe —from continuity of experience to a mental picture of the universe Section 1: Direct Experience and the Pulse of the Universe Section 2: The Pulsating Stage—The Basal Dimension of Reality Section 3: Consciousness of the Large and Small: Hierarchical Order of Reality Section 4: Origins of Creation and Subjectivity: Continuous Unification through “Privatization

Chapter 4: Systematic Interpretation of Pluralistic Cosmology —Effectiveness and Limitations Section 1: Approximation and Suspension between Systemic Worldview and Pluralistic Cosmology 1〈. System Concerns 2. The multiverse from a systems-theoretic viewpoint Section 2: System Theory of the Psyche: A Theory of Organization by “Information 1〈. Definition of “spirit” based on “information” concerns 2. Intersection of two kinds of ladders: evolutionary process and mental process Section 3: The Four Quadrants and the Composition of Progressive Evolution: The Restoration of Interiority

  1. the four quadrants of the connected holons and realities
  2. resistance to a flat world

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