Stuart Kauffman ends the first chapter of At Home in the Universe with the optimistic, "If we find general laws...it would be wise to be wise...We are all at home in the universe".
In Complexity, M. Mitchell Waldrop describes a movement within the scientific community which is,"...grappling with questions that defy all conventional categories...the vision of an underlying unity, a common theoretical framework for complexity that would illuminate nature and humankind alike."
In Chaos, James Gleick describes a movement which, "...eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability...".
In Fire in the Mind, George Johnson talks of some the mysteries being explored by thinkers in Los Alamos and Santa Fe..."How does the Universe arise? How does life arise? Do the patterns found...hold some claim to universal truth"?
In the Info Mesa, Ed Regis explains how"...entrepreneurial scientists create practical and profitable applications...leading to new drugs and medical therapies..."
Are there more worthy, noble questions to ponder?
Do we ever hear our elected representatives or the press raising such issues when discussing public policy?
Wouldn't the Obama Administration be in a better position to coordinate the response to the global economic crisis by knowing about the interactions among the bailout, stimulus and budget actions being considered?
Yes we can!
Lee
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