Jeff Vail - Litigation Strategy & Innovation: Emergence 8: (Interim) Conclusions
I've long argued that there are at least two remaining "great" mysteries that modern science has no viable explanation for: morphogenesis (how one cell turns into such different, complex, and specific forms), and consciousness (an example of emergence). Sheldrake's book is fascinating because it shows just how fundamental these two gaps in our understanding are. We don't understand almost everything with a few minor holes. Rather, we fool ourselves into thinking we understand almost everything despite the fact that these two gaps arguably swallow up any confidence that we deserve to have in any of our "conclusions." Sheldrake's discussion of morphogenesis demonstrates that we may have causation completely wrong--not a minor affair, that causation thing. Our failure to understand consciousness, is also a failure to understand causation.
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