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File Size: 1645 KB
Print Length: 217 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (November 7, 2002)
Publication Date: November 7, 2002
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00VQVPQKQ
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The author lists many systems with emergent properties starting with atoms and proceeding to more complex systems step by step. However, he ends with religion, which seems inappropriate. He really does not try to summarize the emergent characteristics or reach any general conclusions about systems with emergent properties. I was disappointed.
This book attempts to unravel the mind of god as Morowitz feels that "knowing the mind of god is our task as humans, our vocation". Whether it fully succeeds in that task or not, you do understand the mind of Morowitz by reading this book and marvel at his intellectual virtuosity and ability to absorb knowledge from so many disparate fields like cosmology and biology and present such a succinct synthesis of the emergence of phenomena in each of those fields. A major portion of the book consists of a discussion of twenty-eight emergences that "represent a continuous series going from the reductionist core of particle physics to the most noetic aspect of human thought".Despite such extensive coverage of scientific advances, the book manages to read somewhat like an absorbing whodunit: you are waiting till the end for Morowitz - while he maintains the suspense - to finish describing various emergences - from the Big Bang to the evolution of life-forms and the mind to ultimately answer (or attempt to answer) the question: who engineered these emergences? A question posed by theists in this context that is never easy to answer from a non-teleological perspective is "Who was the ultimate mover?" What came before then? What gives life the ability to replicate, to procreate and to grow? The sections (especially the chapters on the emergence of metabolism and cells) dealing with emergence in life forms in this book do a well-argued job of explaining these inquiries. Beware therefore if you are on the epistemic borderline between belief in a supernatural force - let alone a benevolent or omniscient god - and considering other more matter-based alternatives, as this book is wont to sow doubts in your mind and surreptitiously loosen the foundations of your beliefs.Morowitz argues that such emergence is triggered by natural features such as auto-catalysis (similar to the concept of autopoiesis - a system capable of creating itself - propounded by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela) and endosymbiosis and the fact that matter is informatic in nature in the sense that information for change and evolution is created and is re-used in ensuing phenomena. The conclusions in this book (fresh, even startling to some) may end up pleasing neither rationalists nor believers. This does not mean that the book is either inconclusive or ends unsatisfactorily. This is apparent when one reminds oneself of the rubric that there are no pat answers to questions like what does it all mean or why is there something instead of nothing. Morowitz observes, "Eating at the tree of knowledge seems like an inevitable consequence of the development of the universe." The more you eat, the less you seem satiated, though.If at all there is a shortcoming to this book, it is this: it more or less wholly ignores Eastern thought. (Morowitz is himself conscious of this lacuna as he admits that this omission stems from his ignorance of the vast amount of thoughts "outside the one in which my education occurred".) For instance, he presents towards the end of the book a list of the greatest thinkers in history, ranging from Aristotle to Charles Darwin. Some of the very notable exclusions from this list are intellectual giants such as Confucius and the Buddha. The latter particularly was inimical in postulating a metaphysic and epistemology which dealt with existential questions without bringing a deity or supernatural being into the equation. A discussion of ideas that some of the non-Western thinkers gave the world would have contributed immensely towards a better expostulation of the latter emergences that Morowitz talks about, especially those relating to the rise of the noosphere, the mind and consciousness.
An informative read--fairly clear for the layperson (myself), with some jargon and technical spots.Successful in presenting the basic principle of 'emergence', but most of the book is spent in a long-winded struggle to further flesh out emergence and provide examples. . . . as a result I felt that I had to learn quite a bit of biology and geological history just so that they could be drawn into basic examples of emergence. (Not necessarily a bad thing, but a lot of time was spent on the outskirts just to support the theme). I know that the concept (and field) of 'emergence' is new, but I expected to learn more on the dynamics, not just see exemplification. There are a few broad assumptions and much of the author's personal bias can be seen. However, (to me) the author was redeemed when they turned away from the empirical science aspects to cite philosophers (such as Kant) and draw up major points about emergence as a bridge between worldviews of science and religion. This brings surprising balance and broadens the topic, making it more of an insightful work rather than a murky scientific textbook. This exemplifies the broadness of emergence, rather than trapping it in empirical views.
Excellent review about the theory of emergence. I do not agree with the authors conclusion on how religion or a supreme being plays a roll in such emergence. But the book is insightful.
Morowitz the scientist makes a single point, which he drives home again, and again, ceaseless, incessantly, until finally it begins to sink in. It is, in this respect, perhaps the intellectual equivalent of Ravel's Bolero, or the yogi's infinitely repeated "Om". The point is that reductivism is the only tool we have for analyzing the world, it is an amazingly powerful tool, and yet at every level of complexity, emergent phenomena arise that could not have been predicted by the levels that preceded them, and can barely, if at all, be modeled an understood using reductivist analytical and experimental techiques.This is a message that will be rejected by one particular group: the self-styled "scientific atheists" who claim that scientific methodology ineluctably implies that God does not exist, or at least that there is no more reason to believe in God than it is to believe in the Tooth Fairy. Morowitz, by contrast, follows Spinoza in identifying the world of science as dealing with the product of the "immanent God" whose transcendance we attempt to capture spiritually.Scientific atheism's error is its inability to appreciate the notion of emergence. Just as consciousness emerges from a material and chemical substrate the scinetific understanding of which tell us virtually nothing about the nature of its emergent properties, so the physical universe may give rise to an emergent spirituality that simply escapes the scientific imagination. Morovitz' interesting book makes this point extremely clearly.I believe Amazon is due major kudos for providing a forum in which readers can compare and contrast their ideas. I really enjoyed the previous nine reviews of this provocative book.
Good product, as expected.
Excellent; understandable by a retired mechanical engineer with no previous knowledge of topics such as biochemistry.
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