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Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Rupert Sheldrake

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Rupert Sheldrake
Age: 54
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Alfred Rupert Sheldrake
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I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve I think they are more like habits than laws.
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The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.
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I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
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Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
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Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.
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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
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There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
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Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.
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Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.
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Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
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The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.
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The universe is not in a steady state there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
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Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
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Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
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I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.
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When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.
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I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
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The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality.
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Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.
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The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
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