Biocivilisations
Autopoiesis Not Cybernetics
In introducing Predrag Slijepčević’s Biocivilisations, I can do no better than quote from the foreword by Vandana Shiva, who calls it a vital book for…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Zero to Birth
A Book With Many Sides
The average adult human brain weighs about 1.5 kg and accounts for about 2% of the adult body weight. It is very similar in shape…… Read More » 
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
Cultures of Immanence
One of the strong endorsements for this book states that the author has never published a book that didn’t change how anthropologists think about the…… Read More » 
Knowledge Lost
Precarious Transfers
In 2019, I reviewed The Secular Enlightenment by Margaret Jacob on the relationship between the Enlightenment and secularism, where its emergence was accompanied by widespread…… Read More » 
A New Science of Heaven
A Plasma Universe
This ground-breaking and mind-stretching book is subtitled ‘how the science of plasma changes our understanding of physical and spiritual reality’ – and it certainly delivers…… Read More » 
The Self-Assembling Brain
Who is the Smartest of Us All?
How the brain works and how the neurons link up and develop is something that has intrigued science throughout history. What makes a neural network…… Read More » 
Natural Philosophy
Recreating Conceptual Space
The author of this important study has a background spanning chemistry, molecular biophysics and theology. He has recently retired as the Professor of Science and…… Read More » 
Cosmogenesis
Self-Reflexive Knowing
Cosmogenesis is the bold and visionary articulation of the new story whereby Cosmos becomes Cosmogenesis, the static becomes dynamic, the fixed becomes evolutionary in a…… Read More » 
Return of the God Hypothesis
Intelligence Fine-Tunes the Cosmos
This ‘weighty’ book is Meyer’s third, and something of a blockbuster divided into five parts. His second book Signature in the Cell won the Times…… Read More » 
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
Authors: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying
Reviewer: Steve Minett
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
A Disastrous Decline In Child-Rearing
This book was written by a pair of American evolutionary biologists who are also a married couple. It deals with how our evolutionarily ancient bodies…… Read More »