Bruno and the Cosmic Mind
Blick auf den Genfer See, 1852, August Ludwig Erhard Boll (1805–1875) We cannot discuss Giordano Bruno’s theory of matter without including how it is related to his idea of a cosmic mind. Inundated by the overwhelming complexity of emerging patterns in Nature, Bruno refused to adopt the position that all was brought about by chance. In this, he would have agreed with Albert Einstein, who rejected the argument of Niels Bohr and the probabilistic theories of quantum mechanics. Bruno rejected…