A New Way of Thinking: The Challenge of the Future.

Abstract

Obsolete Models Science is forcing us to change our view of world. As Alfred North Whitehead has written, old foun dations of scientific thought are be coming unintelligible. Time, space, matter, structure, pattern, function, etc. all require reinterpretation (Harris 1983) Thomas Kuhn (1957) explains that half a century we have been in midst of [a] conceptual revolution that is once again changing scientist's concep tion of space, matter, force, and structure of universe.' Peter Drucker (1969) writes, fact that we are shifting from a Cartesian view of universe, in which accent has been on parts and elements, to a configuration view, with emphasis on wholes and patterns, challenges every single dividing line between areas of study and Because of these upheavals in thought, conceptual models of world that our culture uses are no longer consistent with scientific knowledge. As a result, these models are becoming less and less effective in explaining our world to us. The Carte sian-Newtonian world of order, linear sequence, and mechanistic prediction, for example, is valid only in limited contexts. Paul Davies writes that since time of Isaac Newton we have visualized our world either as a sterile machine or in a state of entropy or decay He examines a new paradigm, or worldview, that reflects a more integrative point of view: the collec tive, cooperative, and organizational aspects of nature . (Davies 1988).