THE SCIENCE
DELUSION – by Rupert Sheldrake – Hodder & Stoughton - 2012
Bravely,
heroically and largely uncomplainingly, for the past seven days I have laughed
in the face of death and personal oblivion, from my sick-bed, laid low by
man-flu. To coerce me into at least peeking from the covers – and maybe into
sitting up unaided – my wife went to Blackwell’s Bookshop and bought The Science
Delusion by the celebrated scientist, biologist and author, Rupert
Sheldrake. http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html
THE BOOK HAS REVITALIZED ME - I have found it easy to read, so far, firstly because it is well written and secondly because I largely agree with its principle tenets and have had no need to wrestle
with every idea and factoid in every sentence. As I continue to cruise through
the author’s habit forming pathways, as he treads a virgin path confidently through the chaos
of the universe towards understanding and sanity that others will more easily follow, it occurs to me that he must
have been reading my e-notes on Life, The Universe and Everything and been
inspired by my ideas. Or, contrariwise, could it possibly be that I have read some of Professor
Sheldrake’s many books, papers, articles or their reviews – and that I have been
influenced by him?
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| NOT A FEATHER DUSTER. BRAIN SCAN OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTIVITY. WILL SCIENCE STILL KEEP (MATERIAL) BRAINS AND (IMMATERIAL) MINDS SEPARATE? |
The book is searching for scientific consciousness,
continuity, meaning, sanity and balance in disciplines that have, in my words,
dreamed up eccentric, desperate and non-demonstrable ideas such as: genes that allegedly
run humans (and all life-forms) instead of being co-ordinated and employed by us;
robot life-forms, allegedly without Will, volition, intelligence or purpose; the heat-death
universe, illogically extrapolated from Victorian steam engines, supposedly rendering
everything and all actions meaningless; bizarre Strings, Branes and Multiverses
(as many as 10 followed by 500 zero’s) extrapolated from runaway, feverish, mathematical
algorithms that could never be tested in any universe however many eternities they offer; studies by self-professed
intelligent humans that deny the existence of intelligent humans – etc. Theory has lost its way. The scientific consensus - immersed in one hundred and fifty year old paradigms about materialism, atheism, dead matter, ultimate entropy (no more heat, everything dead and useless), the non-existence of life forms (look out behind you!) and much other nonsense - needs to find new directions.
I see the book as systematically restraining
the outmoded mad scientists and moping up their soggy, overflowing minds - however influential they
currently are - and as seeking ways out of the blind canyons and impasses into
which they have blindly herded thought. The
author says that he is putting forward scientific heresies which only those who
have won their Nobel Prizes and are fully retired dare to explore and (my
words) face the maniacal wrath of the censorious consensus. I have both received all the Nobel Prizes I will ever win - and am so old and irrelevant as to be immune from peer-group bullying in science. (NB - Zero Nobel Prizes and I've never been a scientist)
It is a most readable book that all scientists,
thinkers and observers will benefit from. I recommend it.
You will have to read the book to know where
this fits in – but responding to Prof, Sheldrake’s plea for the shortest
possible communbicatons, I have written:
Dear Professor Rupert Sheldrake,
I am enjoying your book, The Science
Delusion, and have reviewed it on my blog.
Morphic Resonance and Habits:
My testable ideas about legible recorded
patterns or templates for seeds, souls and eggs, rely on the “The Aether-Matrix”
which physically, demonstrably consists of “holographic” electro-magnetic
reproductions of the entire universe and all processes, reproduced in, for
example, spheres, on all scales – excluding only wavelengths too large for a
chosen sphere. We are able to see or detect things, ourselves, others, thoughts
and processes, only because they all broadcast their location, identity and
activity in legible waves. There is no sphere or zone in “empty” space where,
with suitable instruments, we cannot observe a unique view of the entire
universe, its parts and all relationships. Such accurate “holographs” of the
whole are constantly re-formed and in-formed by all universal activity. The
electro-magnetic signals are thought to expand to the limits of the observable
universe. Your thoughts at this second
are broadcasting across the universe and are altering The Aether-Matrix. These broadcasts
theoretically never die. I suspect that Inertia is the sum of relationships
between all existing (Habits) and new broadcasts. Other forces and measures,
including universal constants, are adjusted by their interactions.
We now (Feb 2013.) know that DNA alters
continually, hour by hour, through epigenetics, and those chemical drivers are
in turn subject to magnetic fields; and we know that a spec of DNA can record
and replay the Bible, Shakespeare and the Collected Works of Richard Dawkins,
for millennia. We also know that we all
swim in a communal soup of DNA swapping and splicing – irrespective of sexual
congress, gender or species. (By the way
– I wound back the 2012 ovum within the ovum within the ovum to find it shrinks
beyond the Planck minimum in 1770 – Did the universe start in 1770 - do you think?).
I suspect that your Morphic Resonance manifests
as a set of structured matrices within the Aether-Matrix that hold the ever
evolving templates for Forms. And that
the Morphic Resonance creates and holds structured waveforms which are the
electrical scaffolding for simple and complex emergent forms – including people.
INDEX - LIFE, UNIVERSE, EVERYTHING - JAN13
INDEX - LIFE, UNIVERSE, EVERYTHING - JAN13
23 summary slides at: LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 2011:
Background notes at:
http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/universal_model_v7_nov02.htm
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