Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: On Sheldrake Datum: woensdag 11 december 2013 11:44 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 478 Amsterdam, December 11th, 2013 RUPERT SHELDRAKE AND THE EVO-DEVO REVOLUTION - A Comparative Evaluation - FRANK VISSER For over thirty years, Rupert Sheldrake has defended his theory of "morphogenetic fields" (or more generally "morphic resonance") to explain almost anything under the sun, from embryogenesis and regeneration in organisms, to the nature of memory, the function of culture, and the mechanism behind paranormal phenomena such as telepathy, even in animals. His ideas have not been received well by conventional circles of science. Recently, his book The Science Delusion (2012, published in the US as Science Set Free, 2013, by Deepak Chopra) was released, in which he summarized his views and claimed the very conditioning of reductionistic science prevents discoveries to be made about the nature of life, mind and reality... I intend to go back to his first publication mentioned above—and leave the paranormal aspects of Sheldrake's work aside—, and investigate if his arguments for a theory of morphogenetic fields are sound and are as necessary to propose in 2013 as Sheldrake considered them to be in 1981. Or has conventional science made progress in these fields so Sheldrake's hypothesis has become obsolete? Has science by now, in fact, "filled all the gaps that Sheldrake drew attention to"? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser61.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html