Willem Drees - Is the World Self-Organizing?

Are the laws of nature or physics blind in that they seek no direction and have no ‘purpose’? That’s the scientific paradigm. But the world works so well: from a very simple beginning, complexities and beauties have emerged. Some say that there are deep ‘organizing principles’ in the laws of nature such that complexities are natural and expected outcomes. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on complexity and emergence: https://bit.ly/3HLbqTc Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Willem Bernard Drees is professor of philosophy of the humanities at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.