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framework:mechanistic-cosmologyMechanistic cosmology
The dominant scientific world-picture treating matter as inert, lifeless mechanism obeying mathematical laws, originating with Bacon, Descartes, Newton.
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Claims (2)
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- First of ten tacit ultra-mechanistic assumptions underlying current cosmology that must disappear for vital architecture.
- Spiritual overlays are frosting on the mechanistic cake; they do not penetrate or affect the way matter is conceived to work.
Findings (1)
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- A foundational empirical result undermining mechanistic separability, cited as evidence that the whole influences local events.
Chapters (1)
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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.
Quotes (1)
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- Hawking's statement of the ambition of physics, which Alexander uses to show that a theory of everything that omits self is incomplete.
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- The modern scientific worldview that resists the idea of objective life in space.
- The dominant model of space as neutral, mechanistic, and composed of independent parts; critiqued throughout.
- Explanations derived from model internals that describe the biological mechanism of variant effect.
- The existential consequence of the mechanistic cosmology: the world has no point, no value, no purpose, leading to despair and banality in art.
- Traditional efficient causation paradigm; Juarrero argues it is inadequate for understanding intentional action and self-organizing systems.
- Alexander's lifelong pursuit of an architecture that embodies a deep, objective, and universal order.