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Animate and the Inanimate

Name: Animate and the Inanimate
Author: William James Sidis

William James Sidis

Read by Leon Harvey · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface (6:05)
I. The Reverse Universe (8:42)
II. Reversible Laws (4:25)
III. Irreversibility (8:13)
IV. The Paradox (16:05)
V. The Probabilities in the Problem (4:56)
VI. Solution of the Paradox (12:30)
VII. Theories of Life (13:52)
VIII. The Extension of the Second Law (11:43)
IX. The Relation Between the Tendencies (5:44)
X. Exothermic and Endothermic Substances (8:41)
XI. Theories of the Origin of Life (11:06)
XII. The Astronomical Universe (26:43)
XIII. The Nebular Hypothesis (20:09)
XIV. The Reversibility Theory of Cosmogony (9:03)
XV. The Pseudo-Living Organisms (10:54)
XVI. Psychological Aspect of Reversal (15:25)
XVII. General Summary of the Theory (13:06)
XVIII. Some Objections to the Reversibility Theory. XIX. Conclusion (7:47)