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Levels of Awareness

From Microbes to Humans

By: Vern A. Westfall

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Levels of Awareness

From Microbes to Humans

By: Vern A. Westfall

Our genetic trace is splintered and has millions of discarded attempts and millions of successful living forms. The trace of emerging awareness is less fractured, has fewer discards, and is easier to follow, but is more difficult to analyze. Form and awareness are inexorably linked and have always been tested by natural selection as a complementary pair. Physical form and awareness have been full partners in the development of life from the beginning, and we can expect to find the same essential pairing in every living thing we may yet discoverbe it in the oceans depths or on other planets. Awareness is more than mind, more than intelligence, more than consciousness, more than reason, and more than cognizance. Awareness is an essential component of the evolutionary process, is common to all life, and recently has usurped genetic selection as the primary determinant of lifes future. To understand the evolution of life fully, we must recognize awareness as equal in importance to the gene and consider it an emergent state with significance beyond the organs that produce it.

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1532015100

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Insights and Perspectives

Fifty-Seven Thoughtful Essays

By: Vern Westfall

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Insights and Perspectives

Fifty-Seven Thoughtful Essays

By: Vern Westfall

Adventures of the mind can be just as exciting as adventures to exotic places. Guides for these adventures are plentiful, some are fictional, some are explorations into the natural world and some examine our place in it. Formal reality tours can last for years and result in advanced degrees in science and the humanities. The short tours provided here offer only the excitement of new and refreshing viewpoints and insights. Essays include glimpses into social relationships and politics, the origins of awareness, the world of atoms and long looks into the beginnings of the universe and life. Choose a tour and enjoy the adventure. Share it, analyze it, and discuss it, but be aware that a mind stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions.

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1532015887

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9781532015885

A Search for Significance

By: Vern Westfall

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A Search for Significance

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Humanitys search for significance has been ongoing since the earliest humans asked the first questions. Answers have come from the arrangements of stars, from nature, and from many gods. The changing perspectives created by myth, religion, and science have molded our social and spiritual relationships and our perceived place in the natural world. The process forms our core beliefs, gives us direction, outlines our history, and determines our future. Understanding how our differing perspectives both join and separate us is essential if we are to survive our current dominance over natural processes.

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1532019505

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9781532019500

My Way

The Life and Times of Kenneth I. Cleveland

By: Vern Westfall

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The Life and Times of Kenneth I. Cleveland

By: Vern Westfall

Where one comes from and when one lived all frame the circumstances that shape one’s character and determine one’s future. Kenneth Irving Cleveland began life on a farm in Charlton Massachusetts but larger circumstances shaped his future. Ken was born into troubled times and a failing economy. His early career choices were limited, but as post war markets recovered, Ken took advantage of unplanned opportunities and became successful in an unwanted profession. Through quirks of history and a twists of fate, Ken’ surname, Cleveland, prefaced his future, determined his career, and the place where it would begin.

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Levels of Awareness

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