Rupert Sheldrake : morphogenetic resonance

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Sheldrake's a crackpot, but a lovable crack-
pot. I first encountered him in the perennial
pbs pledge week favorite  "A Glorious Accident"

" ... guests included Daniel Dennett,
Freeman Dyson, Stephen Jay Gould,
George Page, Oliver Sacks, Rupert
Sheldrake, and Stephen Toulmin..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glorious_Accident

In which he took a drubbing from the
obnoxious S.J. Gould, who was right, but
unnecessarily arrogant and dismissive.

The dithering Dyson told of an amusing
encounter with Wittgenstein at Cambridge.

Dyson is interesting, as well,  because he
is a world class mathematician/physicist
with literary pretensions, who occasionally,
like Stephen Weinberg (electro-weak
unification), makes a fool oh himself in the
pages of the NYRB- the most current issue
in fact. In which, he, Dyson, explains how
even first rate scientists are not immune
from Sheldrake-like flights of wishful
thinking:

  
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/apr/05/science-rampage-natural-philosophy/

"The fringe of physics is not a sharp
boundary with truth on one side and
fantasy on the other. All of science is
uncertain and subject to revision.."

You might take a peek.


-----Original Message-----
From: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 7:17 pm
Subject: Re: Rupert Sheldrake : morphogenetic resonance


Sheldrake's a quack.  So was Jung.