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Wednesday 3 October
5:00–6:30 pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
3260 South Street, Penn Campus
Science since Newton and Laplace has attempted to reduce
all phenomena to particles (or strings) in motion. This reductionism has
failed to describe the origins of life, agency, meaning, or consciousness,
nor can it predict the way the biosphere or human culture will evolve
in the future. We live in an “emergent universe” instead, a biosphere
of ceaseless creativity blossoming with ever-erupting origins.
Biologist Stuart Kauffman discusses the first glimmerings
of a vision in which the “sacred” is re-defined as the creativity of the
universe.
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