Category: Organisms
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Rudolf Steiner on Natural Objects
This is one of several posts which are based on my reading of The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. For other posts, see below. Ruldolf Steiner seems not only to overvalue thinking, but seems to be stuck in mechanistic thinking? Steiner writes: I construct a machine purposefully when I bring its parts into a…
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The problem with the machine model
Iain McGilchrist writes in The Matter with Things that the problem with the machine model is that we have to explain organisms from the bottom up. Organisms are unfathomably complex. McGilchrist writes, no organism develops as the result of the execution of a sequence of predetermined steps. Each developmental ‘step’ is not simply computable from…
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Margaret Wheatley’s Eight Principles
I found the following eight principles in Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. These principles are from A Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley. Notes:1. Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned, pp. 256–58.
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Retrospective 2024-01
This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…
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Neil Turok on Life
The following quote is from Brian Keating‘s interview with Neil Turok on October 2, 2022: I think, and it may sound strange from a physicist, but I think the most fascinating thing in the universe is Life, and how it’s organized… What is the law that governs life, that tells you that life will emerge?…
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Six features of organisms
Iain McGilchrist suggests in his book The Matter with Things that there are broadly six features that stand out in the description of organisms in contradiction to the metaphor of the machine. They are references to actively co-ordinated processes,expressing a sense of wholeness,inextrictably linked with values, meaning and purpose,leading to self-realization.