Poetry Fetter’d, Fetters the Human Race. William Blake and the remarkable persistence of reductive materialism

Urizen bound from The First Book of Urizen by William Blake. Image: Yale Center for British Art

Why is the mechanical view of reality so strong? Why does billiard-ball atomism remain the default popular metaphysics? Similarly, why the pervasive hold of the equally reductive and scientifically passé idea that genes encode organisms?

After all, philosophers and scientists have been stressing the error for decades and more.

New essay at my Substack, A Golden String…