Re: The self-taming of the universe

2013-01-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
I think that there is no literal field. Self-organization requires only a capacity to experience and effect change. When a car breaks down, there is no field of organization which is going to appear and fix it - the car is fixed by the sensory-motor capacities of the car's owner and nothing

The self-taming of the universe

2013-01-03 Thread Roger Clough
IMHO Sheldrake's morphic fields are organizing fields which result in the self-taming or organization of random fields. So they are anti-entropic or energy-forming. We see such taming in the formation of planets from swirling dust particles, in the formation of tornadoes, and in the