The Web of Life

In his book The Web of Life published some 26 years ago the physicist Fritjof Capra wrote about the breakdown of mechanistic science and the emergence of new ways of thinking concerning our understanding of the physical universe. Capra looks at the shift from linear thinking to systems thinking in science, showing how recent advances in a a number of fields, from evolutionary biology and chaos theory to quantum physics and computer science, signal an emergent paradigm that differs radically from the clock model of classical science.