By contrast, holographic and holonomic processes are truly “holistic” in that they spread patterns everywhere and everywhen to entangle the parts with one another. In this domain, space and time no longer exist and therefore neither does “causality” in Aristotle’s sense of “efficient causation”. This relation between cause and effect has served well as the coin of much of current science and the philosophy of science. However, Aristotle’s more comprehensive formal or formative causation is more appropriate to descriptions of more complex orders such as language and those composed by holographic and holonomic brain processes. Holism in this form is related to “holy” and “healthy”. My hope has been that as scientists begin to understand and accept the validity of holonomic processes as truly scientific, this understanding will help resolve the current estrangement between the sciences and the humanities, and between sophisticated pursuits of science and sophisticated pursuits of religion. (quelle)