So What Does It All Mean?

By S. S. O'Connor,

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Why are humans neither 'good' nor 'bad'? How can so much chaos and confusion in the world actually lead to order? Why are we so often wrong when we're asked if the world's getting better?

In this, the last book in The Secrets of Life quartet, SS O'Connor pulls together…

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I read quite a few non-fiction books in any given year, and this book had me totally gripped (this is SS O’Connor’s fourth and final book in his Secrets of Life series).

Referencing back to the arching themes of the first three books: the gene’s challenges with the second law of thermodynamics, Game Theory, and many other theories of how we got to where we are all the way from the Big Bang, the author highlights how human behavior and the concepts of free will, trust, and cooperation are natural processes in the future evolution of humankind… and how…

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