Mechanistic vs Holographic Universe

Chopra argues that for hundreds of years, science mistakenly set in stone distinctions between the biological organism and the environment which don't really exist. “We are not 'biological organisms contained in an environment', that's a fundamental misperception,” he points out. “The biological organism, whether it's a sentient human being, or a sentient mosquito, a sentient bacterium, is not separate from the environment. Both the biological organism and what we call the environment are differentiated patterns of behaviour of a single reality, whether you call that reality 'Gaia', or 'Planet Earth', or even if you wish, the 'sentient universe'.” Ok, I'm thinking, if that's the case then what does this shift in perception imply in terms of action? “So you don't look at that tree and say, 'oh that tree's the environment', that tree's your lungs, if it didn't breathe, you wouldn't breathe”, explained Chopra. “The Earth is your body. The rivers and waters of our planet are your circulation, if you pollute them, you pollute your circulation. The air is your breath. We need to start thinking of the world as our universal body. Because our survival as human beings is equally dependent on our personal bodies, as well as our universal body.”

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At first, I was rather sceptical of the relevance, to questions about social change and global crisis, of a field as seemingly obscure and technical as quantum mechanics. Butmy bemusement quickly turned to fascination, and then conviction, after discovering one of the pioneers of this revolutionary perspective, Dr. Fritjof Capra, a physicist who teaches and researches theoretical high-energy physics at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. Capra has written widely on the philosophical implications of modern science, and his first book, The Tao of Physics, argued controversially that Western science was now confirming the same fundamental propositions about reality found in Eastern mysticism. When Capra first started work on the manuscript in the 1972, he was spurred on by the realisation that two of his colleagues, both senior physicists who had made paradigm-shifting breakthroughs in the field, agreed with his views.

~ from The Crisis of Perception ~