The evolution of meaning / Fred H. Wöhlbier.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What is it All About? -- The Scientific Method -- The Tree of Nature -- The Tree of Everything -- ch. 2 The Material Base of Nature -- Atoms -- Elementary Particles -- Up Quark and Down Quark -- Electron -- Electron-Neutrino -- Matter -- Three Families of Matter -- ch. 3 Information Processing Events -- Gravity -- The Electromagnetic (EM) Force -- The Nuclear Forces -- The Four Types of Forces -- Something to Wonder About -- The Interaction between Particles -- The Information-Processing Triplet of Parameters -- ch. 4 Law-like Information -- The General Information Cycle -- The Reality Status of the Laws of Nature -- The Emergence of Law-Like Information -- Biological Events -- Conscious Events -- Mental Causation -- The Conceptual Level -- The Category of Conscious Events -- Cultural Events -- The Four Categories of Law-Like Information -- ch. 5 Universal History -- Spacetime -- The Spacetime Tetrad -- Spacetime and Law-like Information -- The History Triplet of the Tree of Everything -- Subjectivity -- ch. 6 Subjectivity -- Physical Perceptions -- Elementary Feelings -- Propositional Perceptions -- Volitions -- Four Aspects of Subjectivity -- ch. 7 The Essential Dimensions -- Freedom -- Truth, Goodness and Beauty -- The Four Essential Dimensions -- ch. 8 What is it All About? -- The Universe as a 'Meaning Circuit' -- The Superstructure of the Tree of Everything -- Why Does the World Exist? -- The Top Node of the Tree of Everything -- ch. 9 Predictions and Conjectures.