I Think That Creativity Depends On Having

The Gaia Hypothesis Of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] Puts Forward A Scientific View Of The Living Earth, Which In One Respect Is Modern, Empherical, Scientific, In Another Respect Re-awakens An Ancient Archetype, Which In Fact Is So Clearly Suggested By The Very Name Of The Hypothesis, Gaia, The Greek Name For Mother Earth.

The Assumption That The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal Is A Vestige Of The Christian Belief System That Informed The Early Postulates Of Modern Science In The Seventeenth Century. Perhaps The Laws Of Nature Have Actually Evolved Along With Nature Itself, And Perhaps They Are Still Evolving. Or Perhaps They Are Not Laws At All, But More Like Habits.

Science At Its Best Is An Open-minded Method Of Inquiry, Not A Belief System.

I Think That Creativity Depends On Having Sufficient Indeterminacy Around For A New Pattern To Arise Up Within It.

The Idea Is That There Is A Kind Of Memory In Nature. Each Kind Of Thing Has A Collective Memory. So, Take A Squirrel Living In New York Now. That Squirrel Is Being Influenced By All Past Squirrels.