FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and ends this weekend on an article on the history of vitalism. While biology threw the baby out with the bathwater reacting to the hocus-pocus of vitalistic thinking, it seems that the deeply mathematically-driven physicists have adopted the same thought after the work of Neils Bohr and others. The stuff of matter, it seems, is more curiously alive than dear Newton thought, with his balls and gravity: Bohr was positively an alchemical vitalist by comparison, in love with the mystery of stuff itself.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022