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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • Edge: BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: REINVENTING THE SACRED By...

    Rated Nov 16 2006 • 9 reviews • worldviews • edge.org

    BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: REINVENTING THE SACRED
    in Edge by Stuart Kauffman.

    I would like to begin a discussion about the first glimmerings of a new scientific worldview 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.

    BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: REINVENTING THE SACRED




    Animist, religious, modern and now a new scientific worldview...
    Worldviews have shaped our understanding and our seeing of what reality is all about. While science is a determinant factor of what is to come Kaufmann indicates that reducing science to rationalism fails to take into account the global encompassing dimension into which science should be place. But there are even other determinant factors at play: population and environmental shocks, globalization and the emergence of philosophic worldviews (China & India). Notwithstanding this Stuart Kauffman's approach is surely enlightening.