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Newsletter Nr. 1.426
Amsterdam, Oktober 9, 2025


Stuart Kauffman's Worldview - Creativity Beyond Physics - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Few contemporary thinkers have tried as courageously as Stuart Kauffman to push the boundaries of scientific thought without abandoning its discipline. A theoretical biologist and complexity theorist, Kauffman's life work aims to show that the creativity of life and mind is real—not reducible to the blind determinism of physics, yet not mystical either. He seeks a middle path between mechanism and metaphysics, between reductionism and romanticism, between chance and design.

Kauffman's “beyond physics” vision and Wilber's Eros-driven cosmology both reject a flat materialism and emphasize creativity—but their metaphysical temperaments could hardly be more different.

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