334 years after Isaac Newton: The Stuart Kauffman Revolution

Einstein’s theory of relativity overturned Newtonian physics in the early 1900s. Nevertheless, “Newtonian” thinking has remained firmly entrenched inscience. Certainly, all scientists now agree that at the subatomic level and atnear light speed, quantum physics overtakes Newtonian physics. But thishas had very little effect on biology and has done nothing to overturn the“reductionist” view of science, which says that everything is merely the sumof its parts and all can be modeled by mathematics.Stuart Kauffman and computer scientist Andrea Roli have written a newpaper that proves evolving biology in principle cannot be reduced tocomputation. This is as devastating to materialistic science as Gödel’sIncompleteness Theorem was to mathematics. In fact, it is equivalent -because it shows that evolving organisms embody incompleteness.Induction, not a deduction. And induction cannot come from deduction;therefore biology is not strictly computational.Thus Kauffman and Roli have pulled the rug out from under ultra-traditionalviews of physics. (Not everyone is going to be happy about this.) Here, PerryMarshall and Stuart Kauffman jazz improvise on the vast implications of thisnew, holistic view of the universe.You can read their paper “The World is Not a Theorem” athttps://tinyurl.com/stuartkauffman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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