The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe [Paperback]

P.C.W. Davies (Author)

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Paperback: 223 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books; Reprinted edition edition (1 April 1989)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0671675613
ISBN-13: 978-0671675615
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,058,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Examines theories about the creation of the universe, argues that matter and energy have the ability to self-organize, and suggests that the universe is developing along a predestined plan.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intuitive Explanation of "Downward Causation", 8 Nov 2004

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This review is from: The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe (Paperback)

This book gives a great feel for Downward Causation. Is it a "Straw Man" to label bottom-up clockwork-universe types as "Believing that knowing the Physics behind Random Access Memory, would let you derive the programs stored in it" ? For many, the idea that the universe is NOT absolutely deterministic will still come as a revelation in late 2004. "Absolute Determinism" is a dead horse still in need of much more kicking, as Arthur Koestler's SPCDH might remark.

4 stars, because it rambles more than his later books, but then again there is good stuff in here which isn't repeated in the later books.

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