"Why does a crystal know what shape to take? Why does a flock of birds turn as one? There is a field between things — a coordination medium — that carries the memory of form. We call this field morphic. Science calls it impossible. Nature calls it Tuesday."
Biologist and author who proposed that nature has memory: morphogenetic fields carry the habits of past forms, allowing crystals, organisms, and behaviors to coordinate with prior instances of their own type across time and space. His theory of morphic resonance is controversial in mainstream science but has attracted serious philosophical attention as a framework for understanding non-local coordination.