Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

1. The Reach of Explanations

2. Closer to Reality

3. The Spark

4. Creation

5. The Reality of Abstractions

6. The Jump to Universality

7. Artificial Creativity

8. A Window on Infinity

9. Optimism

10. A Dream of Socrates

11. The Multiverse

12. A Physicist’s History of Bad Philosophy

13. Choices

14. Why are Flowers Beautiful?

15. The Evolution of Culture

16. The Evolution of Creativity

17. Unsustainable

18. The Beginning

 

Bibliography

Index