Stuart Kauffman (Introduction)

by BBella , Friday, February 06, 2015, 08:04 (3578 days ago) @ dhw

Horgan: Are science and religion compatible?
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> Kauffman: Maybe, in some sense, if Penrose-Hameroff Orchestrated Objective Reduction or my “Beyond the Stalemate” ideas are right, we get a wildly panpsychist participatory universe. In such a view, measurement anywhere is associated with consciousness and responsible will, and for entangled particles a coordinated version of the above, a kind of “mind of God.” but not an omnipotent, omniscient, kind God in monotheistic sense at all. I wrote Reinventing the Sacred, Basic Books 2008, in part to find a sense of God as the natural creativity of universe.
> -Thanks, dhw, for pulling out this quote. I may order his book (Reinventing the Sacred) in hopes to find time to read it. The "participatory universe" he speaks of, I believe, is along the path of ideas I've been hoping some of the discussions here will eventually lead to.