Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

***Location to be added soon! We plan to reserve a Durham Library Room***

Let's read Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being, by Neil Theise - named a favorite book of 2023 by The Marginalian, née Brain Pickings and explored further in this essay.

It's described as... An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that explains the interconnectedness of all things and that Deepak Chopra says, “will change the way you understand yourself and the universe.”

Theise is a Buddhist scientist that brings together our three primary instruments of investigating reality — empirical science (with a focus on complexity theory), philosophy (with a focus on Western idealism), and metaphysics (with a focus on Buddhism, Vedanta, Kabbalah, and Saivism) — to paint a picture of the universe and all of its minutest parts “as nothing but a vast, self-organizing, complex system, the emergent properties of which are… everything.”