Rage Against The Machine

I sliced this video out of the movie - "MindWalk"(1990).

Its based on Fritjof Capra's novel - "The Turning Point."

This movie is a clash between the following points of view.

1. The Descartes-Newton Mechanistic/Reductionist point of view of the Cosmos, (that looks upon life as a reducible natural machine.)

2. Chaos Theory's systemic, holistic point of view of the Cosmos (that rejects the Descartes-Newton Mechanistic/Reductionist point of view.)

3. A poet's (archetype) point of view of the Cosmos.

The poet's point of view is:
"I feel as reduced being called a holistic system as I do being called a biological machine."

The poet rejects the Descartes-Newton point of view. As well as the systems point of view.

Life is not reducible. Life has no lego like building blocks. No fundamental level. The human being is not a reducible biological machine. If you are reducible to "fundamentals", i.e. Lego bricks, do you have any uniqueness?

Further Reading: Being and Quirkiness .