Rupert Sheldrake believes that the following 10 'mechanical' dogmas are holding back science. Do you agree or not? If so, why?
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*1. Nature is mechanical
*2. Matter is unconscious
*3. The laws of nature are fixed
*4. The total amount of matter and energy is unchanged
*5. Nature is purposeless
*6. Biological heredity
*7. Memories are stored inside of the brain as material traces
*8. The mind is inside the head
*9. Psychic phenomena, like telepathy, are impossible
10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that works - if natural remedy or
other healing practice seems to affect physical healing, this is chance or the placebo effect.
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