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Saturday Class - A New Scientific Revolution: 150 Years of Materialism is Ending
The universe isn't a machine. Bruce Director makes the case that consciousness, creativity, and Plato are coming back to science — and why that matters for everything.
For 150 years, modern science has been locked inside a materialist cage — the assumption that if you can't weigh it, measure it, or smash it into particles, it doesn't count.
That framework is cracking.
In this week's Saturday class, Bruce Director — a longtime collaborator of Lyndon LaRouche on questions of science and epistemology — walks through a revolution that's quietly underway in physics, biology, and neuroscience.
The common thread? Leading scientists are abandoning the materialist framework and reaching for something deeper.
Bruce profiles four researchers who are breaking from the orthodoxy:
Dr. Donald Hoffman (UC San Diego), a neuroscientist who argues that consciousness is primary and the material brain is secondary — flipping 150 years of the "hard problem" on its head.
Dr. Michael Levin (Tufts University), a biologist whose regenerative medicine research has led him to call for a "Platonic science" — one that starts with ideas and forms, not molecules.
Dr. Sarah Imari Walker (Arizona State), an astrobiologist challenging Darwinian evolution with "assembly theory" and the provocative idea that we are "much bigger in time than we are in space."
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton IAS), a high-energy physicist who has flatly declared "space-time is dead" — and that a new, fundamental idea in physics must emerge.
What unites them? They've all hit the wall that the Cartesian materialist framework can't account for what they're actually observing.
Bruce argues that the proper framework to organize this revolution already exists: the LaRouche-Riemann method of physical economy, rooted in the principle that the universe is fundamentally creative — not mechanical.
He traces this tradition from Plato through Nicholas of Cusa, Kepler, Leibniz, and Gauss to Riemann's revolutionary 1854 habilitation paper, which showed that the axioms of geometry are not self-evident truths but hypotheses that must be tested against reality.
The connection to our political fight is direct.
The same materialist worldview that tells scientists "consciousness doesn't matter" told economists "industry doesn't matter." The same revolution that's needed in physics — replacing dead mechanism with living creativity — is the revolution Trump's economic program represents in political economy.
This is not a class for specialists. It's for anyone who wants to understand why the old order is dying and what's coming next.
Watch the class and start thinking about the world differently.
—Promethean Action Editorial Staff
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Philosopher and expert in anti-entropic science (dynatropy), Cusa and Leibniz. 50 year collaborator of Lyndon LaRouche. Author of “Riemann for Anti-Dummies.” Classical double bass player.
Founding member of the LaRouche movement in the 1960s. Former editor of LaRouche’s writings and EIR magazine. Regular host of our Saturday class series.
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