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Number
1 (Spring, 1999)
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Way of Knowing as a Way of Healing pp. 3-5
Is there a name for what we at The Nature Institute
do? Try "Goethean science." Or "holistic science." Or "phenomena-centered
science." Or "participative science." Or "qualitative science."
Or "contextual science." None of them does it all, but perhaps
you begin to get the idea.
Words of
Dedication at the Founding Celebration pp.
3-5 by Henrike Holdrege
Recognizing both how little and how much we can do—and
how much we depend on the work of others in our community.
Goethean
Science? p. 4 On the difficulty of finding
an appropriate name for a new kind of science. But Goethe
began practicing it two centuries ago.
Notes and Reviews
Ecological Agriculture
Enters the Mainstream p. 9 by Craig Holdrege
Brief review of two articles (one in Nature and one
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
supporting the idea of ecological agriculture.
Seduced
by Abstractions pp. 9-10 Review of Jerome
Kagan's Three Seductive Ideas (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1998).
Feature Articles
Genes and Life:
The Need for Qualitative Understanding pp. 11-15
by Craig Holdrege
Reflections on the question, "Which of our genes make us
human?" None of them and all of them. The question, it turns
out, betrays a grave misunderstanding of genes and people.
Programming
the Universe: Are Animals Robots? pp. 16-19
by Steve Talbott
Why it may be more difficult to simulate a beetle's mentality
in software than a human being's.
The Obscure
Wisdom of the Potter Wasp,
p. 18 by E. L. Grant Watson
The amazing provision of a female wasp for its offspring.
How does she know the sex of the egg she is providing for?
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