In Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (public library), the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality \u2014 empirical science (with a focus on complexity theory), philosophy (with a focus on Western idealism), and metaphysics (with a focus on Buddhism, Vedanta, Kabbalah, and Saivism) \u2014 to paint a picture of the universe and all of its minutest parts \u201cas nothing but a vast, self-organizing, complex system, the emergent properties of which are\u2026 everything.\u201d<\/blockquote><\/div><\/div><\/div>","width":640,"height":426}