The organisation of reality
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| Description: | Biological methodologies 'look below the surface' to understand visible phenomena, thereby disclosing hidden organisation. A similar approach to the quantum realm is likely to lead to a deeper understanding of reality than we have at present. |
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| Created: | 2020-03-14 20:22 |
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| Collection: | Brian Josephson's lecture collection |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Professor Brian Josephson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | coordination; semiosis; new paradigm; organisation of reality; |
| Abstract: | Present-day physics has fallen into the trap of attempting to characterise nature purely on the basis of studying non-living systems. Through not asking, in the way biologists do, ‘what is going on, to produce the phenomena that we see?’, physicists miss out on key concepts such as the role of signs (semiosis), and investigate only simple forms of coordination.
Local order evolves into order of a more global kind in subtle ways, illustrated here in graphical terms (see slide 7 at 9:13). This new perspective can be expected to be more productive than are conventional approaches. This video is the recording of an online lecture given at the Coherence 2020 conference dedicated to the immunologist Jacques Benveniste. |
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