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The Divided Light

The Divided Light

Hakim Ibn Adam

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three roses publishing
Año de edición:
2026
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Filosofía
ISBN:
9781999065638
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Can a single cell defy the laws of biology-and the certainty of the man observing it? Hakim Ibn Adam is a man of precision, a molecular biologist who sees the world through the cold, reductionist lens of his confocal microscope. But his orderly universe fractures when he encounters Cell #302: a lone T-lymphocyte that refuses to follow its genetic program for death. While thousands of its peers succumb to mechanical suicide, this rebellious cell pauses, calculates, and negotiates with its own fate.Driven by a question he was never trained to ask-'What dreams through these molecules?' -Hakim is propelled on a transformative journey from the sterile white noise of his laboratory to the deep, silent wreckage of Western philosophy. Through the skeptical demolitions of Hume and the transcendental prisons of Kant, he seeks an answer to a devastating mystery: Is consciousness an accident of complexity, or is it the very fabric of reality itself? The Divided Light is a profound meditation that bridges the gap between rigorous systems biology and ancient mystical wisdom. In the tradition of philosophical giants and the quietest contemplations, Hakim must eventually set aside his maps to walk into a pathless land where the observer and the observed are revealed as one.

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