Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00215)

For those interested in seeing how conventional materialistic science keeps 
getting further and further away from understanding the true nature of reality 
or explaining both consciousness and matter and the interconnections between 
them as clearly as theosophy does (and that can be simply modeled by the ABC 
theory which doesn't rely on obscure and complex mathematics or digital 
computational principles) check out the following review of two recent books by 
today's leading scientists.  

<Full text: http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Ross.pdf>

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J. Andrew Ross

Roads to Reality: Penrose and Wolfram Compared


JCS, 12 (2), pp. 78-83


Contenders


Sir Roger Penrose, retired professor of mathematics at the University of

Oxford and collaborator with Stephen Hawking on black hole theory, has

written ‘a complete guide to the laws of the universe’ called The Road to

Reality. His publisher calls it the most important and ambitious work of

science for a generation. Penrose caused a furore in the world of

consciousness studies with his 1989 book The Emperor’s New Mind, which

conjectured a new mechanism for consciousness and kept a faithful band

of researchers busy for a decade with models based on microtubules and

the like. Sadly, the idea fizzled out. The title of the 2002 Tucson

‘Toward a Science of Consciousness’ conference poetry slam winner

was: Microtubules — my ass!


Stephen Wolfram, by contrast, is a maverick loner. Educated at Eton,

Oxford, and Caltech, recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius’ award, 
multimillionaire creator of Mathematica—

‘now the world’s leading software system for

technical computing and symbolic programming’ (to cite his own dust

jacket blurb), he is both author and publisher of the massive volume A

New Kind of Science. He regards it as the most important and ambitious

work of science for three centuries. Yes, Wolfram wishes to be known as

the next Newton. He sees human mental processes as embodied computations

and hence as equivalent to many irreducible processes in nature, such as

weather or the particle dance in rocks.


Whose book should you read?


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Full text: http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Ross.pdf
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Keith Sutherland


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