![]() ![]() Here is an article by Smolin in the Huffington Post “Do We Live in a Universe Hospitable to Our Aspirations?” I’d be very surprised if he hasn’t, but I can’t seem to find any references to Whitehead in his published work. I’m not sure if Smolin has read any Whitehead. What is real? Not the timeless mathematical computations imagined by physicists to perfectly mirror the natural world. Science must incorporate the passage of the present moment into its concept of nature if it hopes to adequately describe (and not technologically destroy) actual nature. He rejects the materialist universe of particles with eternal properties moving in the void. He conceives of the laws of nature, not as existing outside and independent of the evolving universe, but as bound up with cosmic evolution. ![]() I’ll also need to get my hands on the papers Smolin has written with the philosopher Roberto Unger.Īs you can see in his short lecture above, he believes the flow of creative, qualitative time is intrinsic to nature and not just an illusion added to nature by a contingently evolved epiphenomenal consciousness. I’ll be reading his most recent book Time Reborn as soon as possible. I’ve not yet read Smolin’s books, but his sense for the social, political, and economic implications of process-relational cosmology have definitely gotten my attention.
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