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posted 23. September 2003 10:41
The State of Materialism: How the idea of a clockwork universe is being displaced by a universe of uncertainty and freedom
by Jennifer Bayne Kile
ABSTRACT—In their book, The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries that Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality, Paul Davies and John Gribbin confidently pronounce that “Materialism is dead” (13). The mechanistic concept of the universe is dying and taking its’ philosophical aspects with it to the grave. While a mechanistic paradigm was obviously helpful in many ways, the authors maintain that new discoveries are forcing the conception of a new paradigm that will have wide-spread ramifications. Davies and Gribbin take the educated layperson through the changes in the scientific paradigm and suggest that a self-organizing, open, wholistic universe is replacing the Newtonian view.
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