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Word Gems
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Dr. Amit Goswami's
Creative Evolution
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Editor's note: The following quotations are from a youtube interview with Dr. Goswami.
Interviewer: “What’s wrong with the old worldview?”
Dr. Goswami: “The old worldview was Newtonian, [a strictly cause-and-effect clockwork universe]. In that worldview, everything is deterministic, we are machines, and cannot change.”
It is very important to understand that, in the quantum paradigm, biological evolution is but one small facet of a universe led by creative impulse, a mandate for greater complexity, an upward spiraling of increased awareness and sentience.
As we proceed here, we will discuss concepts such as “consciousness collapsing probability waves” and the quantum process as an expression of creativity. To the newcomer, and even to ones who’ve reviewed this material for some time, this information is not always easy to put together; mainly because, it’s so counter-intuitive. On the quantum level, cause-and-effect does not flow in predictable fashion.
For me, one of the most interesting aspects of this subject is that of creativity, experienced by many of us in our lives, as an expression of quantum mechanics.
We will be led to see that the artist’s burst of insight and productive effort, in principle, is the very same energy to be found in biological evolution with the sudden rise of new species.
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