Contents
Other books by Rupert Sheldrake
2 CHANGELESS LAWS, PERMANENT ENERGY
Intuitions of a timeless reality
Platonism, Aristotelianism and the rise of Western science
From Nicholas of Cusa to Galileo
Descartes and the mechanical philosophy
3 FROM HUMAN PROGRESS TO UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION
4 THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL FORMS
Platonic physics and chemistry
5 THE MYSTERY OF MORPHOGENESIS
The unsolved problem of morphogenesis
The duality of matter and information
Chemical theories of pattern formation
The nature of morphogenetic fields
The evolution of morphogenetic fields
The hypothesis of formative causation
Influence through space and time
7 FIELDS, MATTER AND MORPHIC RESONANCE
Atoms and organisms: fields within fields
Morphic fields as probability structures
The structure and morphogenesis of proteins
Experiments on protein folding
Morphic resonance in crystallization
Symmetry and internal resonance
Quantum physics and morphic fields
The ‘Lamarckian’ inheritance of acquired characteristics
The inheritance of acquired characteristics in fruit flies
Dominant and recessive morphic fields
The morphic fields of instinctive behaviour
The inheritance of behavioural fields
‘Missing heritability’ and the human genome project
Morphic resonance and heredity
Are memories stored inside the brain?
The transmission of learning by morphic resonance
The evolution of new patterns of behaviour
10 MORPHIC RESONANCE IN HUMAN LEARNING
The acquisition of physical skills
Morphic resonance in language learning
Experimental tests with foreign languages
A possible test with Hindi keyboards
Memories and morphic resonance
Brain damage and loss of memory
The electrical evocation of memories
Extended minds and personal experience
13 THE MORPHIC FIELDS OF ANIMAL SOCIETIES
The organization of animal societies
14 THE FIELDS OF HUMAN SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
Theories of social and cultural organization
Functionalism and structuralism
15 MYTHS, RITUALS AND THE INFLUENCE OF TRADITION
Traditions, schools, styles and influences
The evolution of morphic fields
Science, God and the origin of the universe
The evolution of the known fields of physics
Is there a purpose in evolution?
Formative causation and the evolution of physics
Morphic resonance between planets
18 CREATIVITY WITHIN A LIVING WORLD