Is There a Social Consciousness in Money?

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As a product of the sixties, do you think without top down solutions to these problems? Could you do it from the bottom up, just through social pressure. And also rewarding people who give away a lot of their money. That's what we need. W there aret millionaires like bill gates, warrn buffet, a ted turner and so on,. They're competing for how much of their money they can give away.

Michael Shermer speaks with scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, Fritjof Capra, about the evolution of his thinking over five decades. In this conversation, based on Capra’s book, Patterns of Connection, Shermer and Capra discuss: what it means to be spiritual in an age of science, nuclear energy and why Capra thinks we don’t need it and Shermer thinks we do, 50 years of progress or regress, limitations of models and theories of reality, limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism, mind and consciousness, and why Capra is hopeful for the future of humanity.