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1988
Terence McKenna and, acclaimed biologist and
originator of the morphogenetic fields theory:
Rupert Sheldrake discuss epistemology.
Sheldrake´s theory sheds light on the
apparent unstable first principles of science and
discuss a paradigm shift revisioning the
scientific method as it has been done since Bacon.
Morphogenetic fields are defined by Sheldrake as
the subset of morphic fields which influence, and
are influenced by living things.
Quote:
Forms and mysteries
seemed to me a fitting title, because of form is a
mystery that even science is willing to
acknowledge. This is the great terra incognito of
modern science: the persistence and genesis of
form. What it is? Where does it come from and what
sustains it? And typical of the history of
science: the more complex problems have been
postponed historically, until epistemological and
analytical capabilities were sufficient to deal
with the problem. |
Quote:
What is being proposed
in the theory of morphogenetic fields is a
revisioning of causality (...) a fundamental
revisioning of how events happen in the world and
very fundamental to the performance of science is
the notion of experiment, and, experiment rests on
the relatively unexamined concept of the
restoration of inititial conditions. Well.. The
Sheldrakian cosmos would play havoc with the
notion of the restoration of initial conditions
because what it is saying is, that the universe is
a steadily accreting and self-defining set of
interlocking habits and that slices into this
waveform interference pattern of habit are
therefore necessarily going to be time-dependant,
in other words: it looks different at each point
in its history. It makes it very hard therefore to
see that in an atmosphere like that ordinary
science can be persecuted at all.
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