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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Background | |
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Considering Causality | |
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Like the Air We Breathe | |
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The Linear Unidirectional Causal Paradigm | |
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One-Way Causality in the West | |
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One-Way Causality in Indian Thought | |
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The Mutual Causal Paradigm in the West | |
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The Buddhist Vision of Mutual Causality | |
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The Reciprocal Hermeneutic of Buddhism and General Systems Theory | |
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Perceptions of Mutual Causality | |
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The Buddhist Teaching of Dependent Co-Arising | |
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The Central Role of the Causal Doctrine in the Dharma | |
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Linear Causality in Pre-Buddhist India | |
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Comparison with Western Linear Views | |
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Scriptural Presentations of Paticca Samuppada | |
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Dependent Co-Arising as Mutual Causality | |
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From Substance to Relation | |
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No First Cause | |
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Syntax of Interdependence | |
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Reciprocity of Causal Factors | |
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Abhidharmist Interpretations | |
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Paticca Samuppada as Interdependence | |
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General Systems Theory | |
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Science's Problems with the One-Way Causal Paradigm | |
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The Perception of Systems in the Life Sciences | |
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Cybernetics and the Concept of Feedback | |
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Systemic Invariances and Hierarchies | |
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Systems Theory in the Social Sciences | |
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The Cognitive System | |
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Systems and Value | |
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Mutual Causality in General Systems Theory | |
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The Transformation of Causes within the System | |
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Feedback as Causal Loop | |
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Negative Feedback Processes | |
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Positive Feedback Processes | |
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Seeing Causes | |
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Dimensions of Mutual Causality | |
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Self as Process | |
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Everything Changes | |
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The Illusion of Separate Selfhood | |
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No Clear Lines of Demarcation | |
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The Lethal Mirage | |
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The Co-Arising of Knower and Known | |
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Perception as Convergence of Factors | |
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Consciousness: Conditioned and Transitive | |
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Information Circuits | |
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Shaping the World through Projection | |
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Learning as Self Reorganization | |
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The Limits of Cognition | |
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Objectless Knowing | |
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Who is Knowing? | |
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The Co-Arising of Body and Mind | |
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Linear Views | |
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"Like Two Sheaves of Reeds" | |
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Two Sides of a Coin | |
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The Internality of All Systems | |
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The Ubiquity and Particularity of Mind | |
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Beyond the Fear of Matter | |
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"Minding" | |
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The Co-Arising of Doer and Deed | |
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Identity and Accountability | |
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The Question of Rebirth | |
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Kaya and Karma | |
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Structure and Function | |
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Past and Present | |
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The Dharma and Determinism | |
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The Determinacy of Choice | |
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The Cognitive System as Decision Center | |
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The Co-Arising of Self and Society | |
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Participation and Particularity | |
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The Interdependence of Person and Community | |
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The Dharma of Social Systems | |
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Mutual Morality | |
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Concern for Other Beings | |
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Tolerance and Iconoclasm | |
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Political Engagement | |
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Right Livelihood and Economic Sharing | |
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Ends and Means | |
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The Dialectics of Personal and Social Transformation | |
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Free to Reconnect | |
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The Tree and the Flame | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |