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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: [i]Reinventing the Sacred[/i], by Stuart Kauffman
I heard the author on the Kojo Namdi radio show on WAMU in Washington DC. He was uncommonly wellspoken. I didn't catch all of the interview, but what I heard caught my attention, and I wondered if anyone has had a chance to read the book, which is a recent publication. He presents his ideas as a way to avoid the reductionism of writers such as Dawkins and Dennett (though he appears to admire these writers). There is a good summary on the following link:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index.html
This might be a good non-fiction book to consider for BT.
DWill
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman
DWill wrote:
I heard the author on the Kojo Namdi radio show on WAMU in Washington DC. He was uncommonly wellspoken. I didn't catch all of the interview, but what I heard caught my attention, and I wondered if anyone has had a chance to read the book, which is a recent publication.....
This might be a good non-fiction book to consider for BT.
DWill