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The Nature of Physical Reality |
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| Authors: | John Polkinghorne |
| Institution: | Cambridge University |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | antireductionism chaos Bernard d'Espagnat determinism downward causation emergence Austin Farrer Mitchell Feigenbaum fractals God of the gaps Mandelbrot set Donald MacKay mechanism mind and matter J¨rgen Moltmann A R Peacocke process thought quantum theory reductionism A N Whitehead |