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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 | |