The Nature of Physical Reality
Abstract. This account of the dynamical theory of chaos leads to a metaphysical picture of a world with an open future, in which the laws of physics are emergent-downward approximations to a more subtle and supple reality and in which there is downward causation through information input as well as...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1991
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Zygon
Year: 1991, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-236 |
Further subjects: | B
Chaos
B Determinism B Peacocke B Fig tree B antireductionism B mind and matter B Fractals B Reductionism B Mechanism B God of the gaps B Moltmann B Quantum Theory B downward causation B Whitehead B process thought B Farrer B Emergence B Mandelbrot set B d'Espagnat B MacKay |
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Summary: | Abstract. This account of the dynamical theory of chaos leads to a metaphysical picture of a world with an open future, in which the laws of physics are emergent-downward approximations to a more subtle and supple reality and in which there is downward causation through information input as well as upward causation through energy input. Such a metaphysical picture can accommodate both human and divine agency. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1991.tb00814.x |