The book addresses the philosophy of causation, and the philosophy of physics, the biological sciences, anthropology, and psychology, in new ways: Does access to different cultural patterns and higher written languages have legitimate status as causes and causal factors in world history, independent from the claims of some physicists and physicalist philosophers that all phenomena can or should be reduced to causes at the level of particle physics? The philosophy of opposites: Given the nature of gravity, light, and quantum computing, I suggest a model of deep space exploration that is an...