In “Quantum Consciousness: The Way to Reconcile Science and Spirituality,” Kingsley Dennis elegantly discusses what has proven to the most intractable issue in neuroscience: consciousness. Because fluctuations and altered states of consciousness are so often linked to the supernatural-religious, I have examined it in many posts, including Consciousness and the Supernatural, which provides a brief [...]
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At what some call the “leading edges” of science and philosophy, there are several intellectuals who are so awed by the improbability of the universe and life, or the complexities of both, that they are led to a sort of mysticism or a sense of the “sacred.” Einstein, of course, became famous for this by [...]
Earlier this week I attended a guest lecture by Stuart Kauffman, who is an experimental-theoretical biologist known for his work on the self-organizing properties of complex systems and the origin of life. It was a thought provoking talk given by someone with a most impressive mind. In his recent book, Reinventing the Sacred: A New [...]
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