Fritjof Capra: from The Tao of Physics to the Systems View of Life. Exclusive interview.
Portrait of Fritjof Capra [ Zenobia Barlow ] Fritjof Capra goes beyond The Tao of Physics ( published in 1975 and translated into 17 languages) with the book The Systems View of Life. A Unifying Vision (written with Pier Luigi Luisi). This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Fritjof Capra gave us an exclusive interview about his view of the universe. As a 18-year-old student you was seduced by Werner Heisenberg's most popular book: Physics and Philosophy. Why? «In this book, Heisenberg vividly described the conceptual and emotional struggles of the quantum physicists whose explorations of the atomic and subatomic world brought them into contact with a strange and unexpected reality. In their attempts to grasp this new reality, they became painfully aware that their basic concepts, their language, and their whole way of thinking were inadequate to describe atomic phenomena. Quantum phy...