Rupert Sheldrake, a parapsychology researcher, argues for a broader understanding of reality, particularly regarding consciousness, which he sees as an anomaly within conventional materialism. He critiques the existing scientific paradigms for being overly narrow and rigid, suggesting they must evolve to accommodate new discoveries and insights. Sheldrake believes that a comprehensive and flexible worldview is essential for truly understanding the universe, and he encourages questioning and reconstructing outdated frameworks in science to address these anomalies.
I think we've got much too narrow a picture of reality. What we need is a larger, more inclusive model of reality, which includes all these anomalies in the Universe.
If you have a Universe, by definition, made up of unconscious matter, and our brains are made of unconscious matter, how come we're conscious?
We need to challenge, dismantle, and reconstruct a worldview that is far more ambitious. The existing scientific paradigm is too narrow, too rigid, and too inadequate.
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