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#324=US#470=06.11.20=1; 9.30:#50 Ward Republics: http://tinyurl.com/onx4j :BBCWeb media: http://tinyurl.com/ymcrzx Eons media: http://tinyurl.com/gvfp6 >Tsai #9: Atist's BBCWeb, http://www.bbcweb.net record. Chiang KMT Ma Crisis #3: http://tinyurl.com/sbsmf Rally#73: Crisis#18; Capital campaign #35 #0. 'Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing The Sacred', by Stuart A. Kauffman: http://tinyurl.com/yyf47c 1) "Beyond Reductionism", by Arthur Koestler and J.R. Smythies (1971): http://tinyurl.com/sspda "" An amazing book, March 22, 2006 Reviewer: Peter D. Duckett (Damariscotta, ME United States) - See all my reviews This amazing book brings together the thinking of some incredible minds in the form of written papers and ensuing discussions across multiple domains and disciplines ranging from cognition, economics, psychology and neurophysiology to biology in an exploration of general systems dynamics. My understanding is that these papers are the product of a symposium held in Alpbach Austira in the summer of 1968. Participants included numerous well known individuals such as Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, Arther Koestler, Ludwig von Bertalanffy. This book is a crucial document in the history of the evolution of systems thinking and represents an early forerunner of the current Conference on Thinking. "" 2) 'BEYOND REDUCTIONISM Reinventing The Sacred': by Stuart A. Kauffman: http://tinyurl.com/yyf47c [[ SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 'The Evolution of Future Wealth Technologies evolve much as species do, and that underappreciated fact is the key to growth', By Stuart A. Kauffman As economics attempts to model increasingly complicated phenomena, however, it would do well to shift its attention from physics to biology, because the biosphere and the living things in it represent the most complex systems known in nature. In particular, a deeper understanding of how species adapt and evolve may bring profound--even revolutionary--insights into business adaptability and the engines of economic growth. ]] "" Two fine authors, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, have written recent books, The God Delusion and Breaking the Spell arguing against religion. Their views are based on contemporary science. But the largest convictions of contemporary science remain based on reductionism. I would like to begin a discussion about the first glimmerings of a new scientific world view — beyond reductionism to emergence and radical creativity in the biosphere and human world. This emerging view finds a natural scientific place for value and ethics, and places us as co-creators of the enormous web of emerging complexity that is the evolving biosphere and human economics and culture. In this scientific world view, we can ask: Is it more astonishing that a God created all that exists in six days, or that the natural processes of the creative universe have yielded galaxies, chemistry, life, agency, meaning, value, consciousness, culture without a Creator. In my mind and heart, the overwhelming answer is that the truth as best we know it, that all arose with no Creator agent, all on its wondrous own, is so awesome and stunning that it is God enough for me and I hope much of humankind. "" "" Introduction Stuart A. Kauffman studies the origin of life and the origins of molecular organization. Thirty-five years ago, he developed the Kauffman models, which are random networks exhibiting a kind of self-organization that he terms "order for free." He asks a question that goes beyond those asked by other evolutionary theorists: if selection is operating all the time, how do we build a theory that combines self-organization (order for free) and selection? The answer lies in a "new" biology: "While it may sound as if 'order for free' is a serious challenge to Darwinian evolution, it's not so much that I want to challenge Darwinism and say that Darwin was wrong. I don't think he was wrong at all. I have no doubt that natural selection is an overriding, brilliant idea and a major force in evolution, but there are parts of it that Darwin couldn't have gotten right. One is that if there is order for free — if you have complex systems with powerfully ordered properties — you have to ask a question that evolutionary theories have never asked: Granting that selection is operating all the time, how do we build a theory that combines self-organization of complex systems — that is, this order for free — and natural selection? There's no body of theory in science that does this. There's nothing in physics that does this, because there's no natural selection in physics — there's self organization. Biology hasn't done it, because although we have a theory of selection, we've never married it to ideas of self-organization. One thing we have to do is broaden evolutionary theory to describe what happens when selection acts on systems that already have robust self-organizing properties. This body of theory simply does not exist." (From "Order for Free", Chapter 20, The Third Culture, 1995) In the following essay, Kauffman frames a new scientific world view of emergence and ceaseless creativity, which, he notes, is "awesome in what has come to pass in reality, and God enough for me and many, where God is the creativity of the universe, yielding a global ethics of respect for all life, the planet, awe, wonder and spirituality cut free from a transcendent God." — JB STUART A. KAUFFMAN is a professor at the University of Calgary with a shared appointment between biological sciences and physics and astronomy. He is also the leader of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics (IBI) which conducts leading-edge interdisciplinary research in systems biology. Dr. Kauffman is also an emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, a MacArthur Fellow and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of The Origins of Order, At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization, and Investigations. Stuart A. Kauffman's Edge Bio Page The Reality Club: Jaron Lanier ""