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4.0 The Emerging Vision of a Developmental Universe

Prescient attempts earlier in the twentieth century sketched the outlines of a self-organizing universe. These references are followed by current efforts to articulate this discovery as it gains verification.

4.1 Historical Precedents

Dyson, Freeman. “Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe.” Reviews of Modern Physics. vol. 51, no. 3 (March 1979): 452–67.

Jantsch, Erich. The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications. Oxford: Pergamon, 1980.

Koestler, Arthur. Janus: A Summing Up. New York: Random House, 1978.

Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980.

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. The Phenomenon of Man. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961.
_______. The Human Phenomenon. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999.

Vernadsky, Vladimir. The Biosphere. New York: Copernicus, 1998.

Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology. New York: The Free Press, 1978.

Younghusband, Francis Edward. The Living Universe. New York: Dutton, 1933.

   
 
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