The Nature of Physical Reality

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...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Polkinghorne, John C. 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1991
In: Zygon
Year: 1991, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-236
Further subjects:B Chaos
B Determinism
B Peacocke
B Fig tree
B antireductionism
B mind and matter
B Fractals
B Reductionism
B Mechanism
B God of the gaps
B Moltmann
B Quantum Theory
B downward causation
B Whitehead
B process thought
B Farrer
B Emergence
B Mandelbrot set
B d'Espagnat
B MacKay
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1991.tb00814.x