Monday, December 3, 2007

Chaos and Life by Richard J. Bird

Begins with an insightful critique of science or rather scientism. After a brief intro of chaos theory, fractals, and iteration, he briefly presents Darwinism as inadequate. Then a discussion of entropy and randomness. He then introduces his major ideas of iteration and recursion as an answer to Godël's incompleteness theorem and as a model of time, consciousness, and the fractal world, and understanding God as other and in the world. Starts strong, interesting ideas. Overreaches at the end but not offensively, rather almost embarrassedly.

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