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Physics into physics won’t go5 comments

Chris Lawrence wrote 1 year ago: I’ve read Chapter 4 of Stuart A Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred several times in the hope that I’l … more →

Tags: Biology, Philosophy, alan turing, emergence, quantum mechanics, Reductionism, Stuart A. Kauffman, Stuart Kauffman

Not thumping but pumping7 comments

Chris Lawrence wrote 2 years ago: One of the frustrating things about Reinventing the Sacred is that it keeps flip-flopping between co … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Biology, evolution, Evolution, natural selection, Teleology, Reductionism, Stuart A. Kauffman, Stuart Kauffman

Reductio ad Professor Plum

Chris Lawrence wrote 2 years ago: I found myself talking last time about a lot of things I don’t really understand: Alonzo Church’s pr … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Science, logic, Causality, Reductionism, emergence, Stuart A. Kauffman, Stuart Kauffman, Turing Machine

Heath Robinson goes to Church3 comments

Chris Lawrence wrote 2 years ago: Stuart Kauffman I talked last time about left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. This was o … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Science, mathematics, logic, Determinism, Reductionism, emergence, Stuart A. Kauffman, Stuart Kauffman

Left over right and right over left

Chris Lawrence wrote 2 years ago: I spoke last time about what I thought was one of Stuart Kauffman’s points in Reinventing the Sacred … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Science, Biology, evolution, amino acid, Reductionism, emergence, Stuart A. Kauffman, Stuart Kauffman

Reinventing the sand dune2 comments

Chris Lawrence wrote 2 years ago: I have just finished reading Stuart A Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred. I agree with some of it, bu … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Religion, Biology, Stuart A. Kauffman, Determinism, Reductionism, emergence, Stuart Kauffman, Emergentism

An Emerging Taste for Good and Bad

Will wrote 2 years ago: I can’t say for sure when or why, but at some point in my lifelong train of thought I came to view e … more →

Tags: Meta-ethics, Paradigm, Philosophy, Science, Morality, ethics, Evolution, agency, Reductionism

"Reinventing the Sacred: A View of Science, Reason and Religion" by Stuart A. Kauffman (Basic Books, 2008)

bookbanter wrote 3 years ago: Stuart A. Kauffman is the founding director for Biocomplexity and Informatics, is a professor at the … more →

Tags: nonfiction, Science, Religion, Stuart A. Kauffman, spirituality, 26.1

Sacred19 comments

Brian wrote 4 years ago: The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred. ~ N. Scott Momaday It … more →

Tags: Books, Faith, Religion, N. Scott Momaday, A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically, agnostic, Reverence, Sacred

My next book purchase...

thelemonspank wrote 5 years ago: Complexity theory pioneer Stuart Kauffman, author of the fantastic At Home In The Universe, has a ne … more →

Tags: Zest, Religion, Science, einstein, Art, Stuart Kauffman, at home in the universe, Shakespeare


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