Abstract
Abstract
Quantum physicists and quantum biologists enjoy a mathematically-inspired romance with the wonders of nature at the quantum level. Recognizing the romance of mathematics and the quantum-to-cosmic level relational energetics of Nature can lead to a more integral, romantic, and even embodied phenomenology of the intelligence inherent within Nature’s relational and embodied energies. Approaching this quantum nature of Nature from the more romantic, wholistic views of the right hemisphere of the brain, rather than from the fragmenting views of the left hemisphere of the brain, one can begin to discover the self-organizing abilities of the energies of Nature at all levels of scale. In far from equilibrium states, energy is available for systems to self-organize at all scales, from a single particle on up to galaxies. This integral and romantic view of Nature from quantum scales to cosmic scales reveals a fractal intelligence inherent within all levels of the self-organizing systems of Nature. Indeed, Nature is self-organizing, or Self-organizing at all levels of scale. Everything in Nature occurs as a system, from quantum wave functions to the Universe as a whole. This integral systems philosophy recognizes Nature not as some “thing” that has been intelligently designed, but as a living cosmos embodying intelligence in all levels of being, such that Nature is intelligent. Ecosystems are the perfect example of the expression of Nature’s self-organizing intelligence, for if ecosystems were not wise, collapse of ecosystems would have been the norm, rather than the exception for hundreds of millions of years on Earth. Moreover, the inherent vibratory “felt states” of Nature can lead to an embodied phenomenology of the self-organizing wisdom of Nature.
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Richardson, Carol
(2024)
"An Integral Approach to Philosophy of Nature,"
Journal of Conscious Evolution: Vol. 20, Article 12.
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https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cejournal/vol20/iss20/12
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