Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

enable us to become a global village of symbiotic communities,
This vision emerged from the counterculture hippie movement in
San Francisco.
In 1948, Norbert Wiener published the book
. The
central insight of the book is that information, rather than energy, is
the central notion in all of science.
In the late 1940s, the idea that energy was at the core of science
was based on the fact that energy could be transferred; it was the
that govern energy transfer in particular systems and showing how
energy creates work, light, order, and life.
However, in looking at quantum theory and relativity, genetics,
behaviorism and social psychology, and the project to create
mechanical calculating machines and early robots, Wiener arrived
at a different view. He suggested that we could reframe the
commonalities of all sciences in terms that are not based on the
If nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, including
such physical forces as gravitation, then events at points
each other. Cause and effect, the basic notion underlying all
of science, is shown by the theory of relativity to be about
communication by signals sent between points in space
and time.
When spin-correlated particles are removed from each other
and the wave function collapses as a result of looking at one
of them, how does the other one know what property state to
assume? Quantum mechanics is about information.
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