- Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
- Verlag: Inner Traditions; Auflage: Reprint (März 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0892815353
- ISBN-13: 978-0892815357
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 326.479 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"Sheldrake is a Cambridge-trained research biologist whose modest proposals. . . have upset scientific orthodoxy"
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Why do many phenonmena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organismsin the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, Sheldrake reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws.The first edition of A New Science of Life created a furor when it appeared, provoking the outrage of the old-guard scientific community and the approbation of the new. The British journal Nature called it "the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." A lively debate ensued, as researchers devised experiments testing Sheldrake's hypothesis, including some involving millions of people through the medium of television. These developments are recorded in this revised and expanded edition.
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Arie de Geus (author of THE LIVING COMPANY) recommended this book to me, and I found it to be very stimulating reading. All fields of learning (including biological sciences, in this case) have an approved thought process that is used to make progress. What can be lost from using such a discipline is the opportunity of asking other kinds of questions, in different orders, and with different methods. Yet most large advances in learning occur just when such changes occur.
For example, evolutionary theory is rapidly being rewritten because scientists have conducted measurements and experiments for the first time. These new opportunities to learn immediately showed that evolution works much differently from what Darwin and the fossil record suggest. Evolution of species actually can happen almost overnight when a species is stressed enough. Look at viruses, bacteria, lizards being put into hostile environments, and Darwin's own finches during extreme weather conditions and you can see this happening.
We need more work like this that is initially driven from observations about nature to suggest hypotheses to be tested through experimentation. The normal process is to start with a theory, add a hypothesis, and then experiment. The danger of this approach is that the really powerful hypotheses never occur to anyone, so they are not tested. In the English language, there is a terrible tyranny of words that seem to suggest that things are "possible" or "impossible" just because of what we know about syntax and words -- often the opposite is the truth.
Reading this book is a challenge for anyone who is not a scientist, but you will find your mind stretched in useful ways that are well worth the effort. Even if this hypothesis of Morphic Resonance turns out to be wrong, it seems to take us down a path where we will learn the answers to important questions that would otherwise have been ignored. I look forward to the testing of these ideas.
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Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance may be the missing piece in the giant puzzle we call developmental biology.
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Sheldrake's hypothesis of morphic resonance is an expansion of the evolutionary debate into the larger problem of morphogenesis (ie, the evolution of all form), implying that the forces which shape a polypeptide molecule or the structure of galaxies are the same as those that determine the shape of a dog's tooth or the behavior of nudibranchs. The implicite heresy here is that something bigger is afoot than Darwin ever imagined, and that natural selection has little or nothing to do with the evolution of species and life. Yet Sheldrake, a bona fide scientist, is far from invoking god as the grand designer of nature. Morphic resonance is a hypothesis which will appear decidedly far-fetched and psychedelic for readers already dyed in the naturally selected wool of evolutionary theory. It will make mad-dog reductionists like Richard Dawkins positively foam at the mouth (eg: the prestigious journal 'Nature' suggests burning Sheldrake's books). This is a book for scientific minds who have come to recognize the limitations of the Darwinian doctrine yet are horrified at the creationist alternative. Sheldrake's largely speculative but compelling hypothesis, even if proved totally false, is a welcome breath of fresh air in a tired debate. I found it a fascinating read.
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HARD TO READ
I HAVE READ ABOUT 3/4 OF THE BOOK, AND IT'S BEEN REALLY HARD TO GO THROUGH IT. THE SUBJECT IS FASCINATING, I WONDER IF MR. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Dezember 1999 von Patricia Acosta
To reframe your mind to meet todays challenges, read this.
I can't say much more about this book than others have. But if you want to get at the nub of things and get past the hype about quantum this and chaos that, this book is for you.
Veröffentlicht am 19. April 1998 von Ned Hamson
Begging the question
To say that the leopard got its spots from its mother not only begs the question of morphogenesis but in some ways simply reintroduces a petrified egg and fossilized chicken. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Dezember 1997 veröffentlicht
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