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At the beginning of the 20th century, modern science asserted that only matter really exists. Science, philosophy, and culture declared the victory of materialism over all other worldviews. The contemporary world was formatted according to the software of materialism, coupled with Darwinism, capitalism, individualism, and consumerism. This system engendered the infernal cycle of over-exploitation, over-production, and over-consumption, with many negative consequences. After a century of exponential development, contemporary science is now asserting: Matter doesn't really exist.�Different interpretations of contemporary physics, as well as the union of the quantum revolution and the information processing revolution, are leading to the revolutionary conclusion that the universe is not made up of matter or material objects but of energy -�understood as activity and complex information-processing systems or agents.

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Despite the resounding optimism characterizing the advent of classical mechanistic materialism in the seventeenth century, its failure was unexpectedly sealed with Maxwell's equations in the nineteenth century. Yet, in the twenty-first century, classical mechanistic materialism remains the Kuhnian paradigm by which we attempt (with ever increasing contortion) to understand quantum mechanics. Why? In Science Proclaims Materialism Dead Adil Kabbaj demonstrates with refreshing clarity how the familiar lamentation that quantum mechanics is 'spooky' and impenetrable derives not from the physics itself but rather from the misguided attempt to understand it through the distortive lens of a 400-year-old interpretive paradigm. In considering how modern physics continues to drive the evolution of classical materialism toward a new, fundamentally non-classical worldview, Kabbaj surveys and analyzes our most recent experimental and interpretive advances in quantum mechanics to outline the contours of what this much-needed and long-anticipated paradigm shift might look like. --Michael Epperson, Research Professor & Director of Consortium for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, and author

Despite the resounding optimism characterizing the advent of classical mechanistic materialism in the seventeenth century, its failure was unexpectedly sealed with Maxwell's equations in the nineteenth century. Yet, in the twenty-first century, classical mechanistic materialism remains the Kuhnian paradigm by which we attempt (with ever increasing contortion) to understand quantum mechanics. Why? In Science Proclaims Materialism Dead Adil Kabbaj demonstrates with refreshing clarity how the familiar lamentation that quantum mechanics is 'spooky' and impenetrable derives not from the physics itself but rather from the misguided attempt to understand it through the distortive lens of a 400-year-old interpretive paradigm. In considering how modern physics continues to drive the evolution of classical materialism toward a new, fundamentally non-classical worldview, Kabbaj surveys and analyzes our most recent experimental and interpretive advances in quantum mechanics to outline the contours of what this much-needed and long-anticipated paradigm shift might look like. --Michael Epperson, Research Professor & Director of Consortium for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, and author of Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Foundations of Relational Realism In this important work, the speculations of philosophers and the technical details of scientific inquiry are admirably woven together to defend a thesis regarding the fundamental constituents of reality. In accordance with the process tradition, Adil Kabbaj presents a sustained and cogently argued view supported by quantum physics and the science of information-processing systems, according to which matter must be replaced by an ontology of energy understood as actions, interactions, and information processing. --Leemon B. McHenry, California State University, Northridge, author of The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

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Adil Kabbaj is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA), Rabat, Morocco. His research interests include knowledge, ontology, intelligent systems and the philosophical role of computer science and artificial intelligence. He lives in Tamesna, Morocco.

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