Woodenfish Foundation
Woodenfish Forum: Buddhism and New Technology
Shanghai, China
June 12, 2017
Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, speaker, author and sustainability consultant to
businesses, government agencies and other organizations. She
is a US and Greek citizen who has lived in the USA, Canada,
Greece, Peru and Spain while lecturing, doing workshops and
media appearances on all continents. She has a PhD from
Dalhousie University in Canada, completed her postdoctoral
work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
and taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and MIT
then was a researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital
and a science writer for the Horizon/Nova television series.
science series, a UN Consultant on indigenous peoples, and
was invited to China under the auspices of the Chinese National
Consciousness in Science Western and Eastern sciences have antithetical relationships with consciousness, as
Western science sees consciousness emerging from matter while Eastern science sees matter emerging from consciousness. Western quantum physicists, in breaking through to the primary field of consciousness had to turn to Eastern science to make sense of
their findings a century ago, yet the dominant Western science paradigm remains essentially unchanged. Because Western science relies on measuring its reality with physical instruments, while consciousness is non-physical, it is limited in understanding
consciousness and the living systems it generates. These issues are explored and solutions proposed, especially as a Global Consortium of Sciences in place of a monoscience Science Organization in 1973.
She organized Earth Celebration 2000 in Athens, Greece, is an advisor to Ethical Markets and holds the Elisabet Sahtouris Chair in Living Economies at the World Business Academy. She consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil, Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States.
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