Late-20th-century holistic science

The confluence of quantum physics, systems theory, chaos theory, complexity theory, and biology attempting a more holistic picture of the universe as an unbroken whole.

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Late-20th-century holistic science still describes mechanisms; it has not overcome the mechanistic character of its models.
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Even the beautiful descriptions of wholeness by scientists like Mae-Wan Ho remain mechanistic in detail and have not solved the bifurcation.

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Chapter 1: Our Present Picture Of The Universe
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The opening chapter of The Nature of Order, Vol. 4, diagnosing the inadequacy of mechanistic cosmology and setting the stage for a new worldview that reconciles self and matter.

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What one must imagine is an incredible hive of activity, at every level of magnification—of music being made using more than two thirds of the 73 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum—locally appearing as though chaotic, and yet perfectly coordinated as a whole.
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Mae-Wan Ho's beautiful description of the living organism, which Alexander cites as poetic yet still mechanistic.

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