Ralph Lewis, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, a psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and a consultant at the Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto.
, is a psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada; an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto; and a psycho-oncology consultant at the Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. He is a full-time clinician in a hospital-based practice, focusing particularly on youth and young adult psychiatry and on psycho-oncology in adults and the elderly.
This book examines the unreliability of subjective perception and looks at the universe as science shows us it really is: spontaneous and unguided – there isn’t a plan or purpose. Things don’t happen for intended reasons, unless of course they’re caused by intentional agents – such as us. Otherwise, things just happen – things such as cancer. And things like the universe itself.
A random world, which according to all the scientific evidence and despite our intuitions is the actual world we live in, is too often misconstrued as nihilistic, demotivating, or devoid of morality and meaning. It needn’t be. The scientific worldview of an unguided, spontaneous universe can be awe-inspiring and foundational to building a more compassionate society.
No single information bit, particle, organism, or person has inherent meaning in isolation. All meaning, and maybe even existence, is relational.The mind is the brain’s internal model of the body and environment. It is a physically encoded web of correlational representations of the self in relation to the world.
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