Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake
Alfred Rupert Sheldrakeis an English author, public speaker, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, known for his "morphic resonance" concept. He worked as a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973 and as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics until 1978...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1942
people scientists
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
active cheapest passive reforms science simplest switch
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
assumption based features nature
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.
point represents
I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.
british-scientist call designed machines point processing program stay time word
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
hard people work
I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.
learnt
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
analogy british-scientist conscious darwin developed human natural selection
Well, natural selection was an idea that Darwin developed by analogy with conscious human selection. That's where he got the idea from.
british-scientist hear hoping interested love protein
Well, I'm always hoping to hear from interested chemists and protein chemists, because I'd love for these experiments to be done properly.
british-scientist eternal nature theory
The mechanistic theory of nature is a theory of nature, and one that I think is wrong, or at least too limited. It's not an eternal truth.
dog home pet
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
past way determined
So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.
chaos determined chaotic
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
appreciation art people
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.