irreducible complexity

Since their inception in the 17th century, the modern sciences have been given over to a majestic vision: there is nothing in nature but atoms and the void. This is hardly a new thought, of course; in the ancient world, it received its most memorable expression in Lucretius’ On the Nature … » Go

This is the final chapter of the 1995 book The Quantum Enigma, with some recent reflections.