Capra+and+Luisi+reading+note

__Introduction: Paradigms in Science and Society__
 * Origin, nature and meaning of life
 * Earliest Greek philosophers think matter is alive
 * Ancient Chinese philosophers believes intrinsic dynamic called Tao
 * Origin, nature, and meaning of life in the view of modern science
 * clarifications achievements
 * limitations
 * scientific method
 * Scientific Method
 * way of gaining knowledge about nature
 * several stages
 * limited because of interconnection of all natural phenomenas
 * can formulate models to approximate web of interconnected natural phenomena
 * scientific and social paradigms
 * paradigm shifts instead of continuous progress
 * paradigm connected with values
 * change form mechanistic to holistic and ecological paradigm
 * recurring changing between mechanism and holism in history
 * mechanism and holism in biology
 * emergence of organismic biology
 * system thinking
 * Deep ecology
 * question of values
 * earth-centred