The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in the Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe [Paperback]

Paul Davies (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone Books (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671675613
• ISBN-13: 978-0671675615
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,970,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intuitive Explanation of "Downward Causation", November 7, 2004

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This review is from: The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in the Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe (Paperback)

This book gives a great feel for Downward Causation. Is it a "Straw Man" to label bottom-up clockwork-universe types as "Believing that knowing the Physics behind Random Access Memory, would let you derive the programs stored in it" ? For many, the idea that the universe is NOT absolutely deterministic will still come as a revelation in late 2004. "Absolute Determinism" is a dead horse still in need of much more kicking, as Arthur Koestler's SPCDH might remark.

4 stars, because it rambles more than his later books, but then again there is good stuff in here which isn't repeated in the later books.