Today’s scientific conception of cosmic evolution provokes us to explore some of our biggest questions.  Is the Universe “about something”?  What might be roles for life and intelligence in cosmic evolution?  How might we think about value, meaning, purpose, and ethics in a cosmic evolutionary context?  Building from foundations of modern science, contemporary cosmology, and psychological and philosophical perspectives of value and meaning, this book explores such questions.  The sciences of Relativity and Quantum Theory, combined with cosmic evolution and philosophical traditions such as Process Philosophy, contribute to the development of a broad “relationalist framework” that helps inform a variety of other perspectives, including “scientific minimalism” and “cosmological theories of value” such as Cosmological Reverence, Cosmocultural Evolution, and the Connection-Action Principle – all of which help inform how we might think about ethics, value, and meaning in a cosmic context, including application to challenges such as the search of extraterrestrial life and the future of intelligence in the universe.weiterlesen