The universe is not in a steady state; there’s an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.
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...
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
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.
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...
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
There’s a certain kind of scepticism that can’t bear uncertainty.
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.
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.
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.