…away in terms of something which is a product of mind so that we see there is a profound logical fallacy here Needham goes on to say The legitimacy of physico-chemical explanations in the realm of physical life is well grounded, but we have found…

…individual patterns being subsumed in the great pattern. And the Tao, this fundamental Chinese idea, has been likened by modern thinkers such as Needham to a kind of cosmic field of force which is a field of force not only in the physical world but in…

…and Leibniz's philosophy has had a profound influence on such modern organicist philosophers as Whitehead, for example, or as Needham, or Bertalanffy, or Smuts, or Lloyd Morgan. So it's very interesting to see that this remote, still non-scientific view…