This is a retrospective of week 7, 2024 (2024-02-12–2024-02-18).
This week I completed my review of Leanne Whitney’s book Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. If pure consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe, then not only depth psychology, but science itself, needs a “a major conceptual revolution”1.
I will now immerse myself in Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations in the coming weeks. John J. Kineman writes,
Rosen may well be considered the Einstein of biology, having provided what may be an even more comprehensive word-view than Einstein did in physics.
—John J. Kineman, Relational Science: Towards a Unified Theory of Nature, in Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen, p. 419.
Rosen showed that the mechanistic view of science restricts us to simple approximations of nature’s complex behaviors. He suggested that it is possible to expand science by including contextual causes that mechanism left out. The mechanical view in science is devoid of anything truly creative. There’s no aliveness!
Notes:
1. Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Related posts:
Book Review: Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali
Book Review: Essays on Life Itself