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Over recent years, the world-view given to us by
science has changed: we can talk of Old and New Paradigms/World-views. In
headline form, the change looks like this -
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Old |
New |
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Determinism |
Indeterminism |
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Machine |
Organism |
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Separate units |
Interconnection |
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Atoms |
Fields |
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Exact quantities |
Articulated structure |
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Observation |
Interaction |
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Control |
Participation |
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Competition |
Co-operation |
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Freedom is illusory |
Creativity |
This in turn has implications for our
relationship with the world, how we "are in the world" - in short, for
our Spirituality
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New Paradigm |
suggesting …. |
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Indeterminism |
Each present moment is open to new opportunity |
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Organism |
My relation to the world is modelled on my relations to living
creatures |
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Interconnection |
Empathy, for people and other-than-humans, is physically real |
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Fields |
Each of my actions propagates infinite effects |
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Articulated structure |
My sensitivity to patterns is a key to understanding |
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Interaction |
I accept being changed by what I encounter |
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Participation |
I am committed to engagement with the world |
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Co-operation |
I look for mutual benefit |
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Creativity |
I am willing to shift to new ways of perceiving |
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